FORMICIDAE 1001 



L. latipes (Walsh). SI: Tottenville, and elsewhere (D&B) ; LI: Selden, Yaphank, 



Riverhead, Rockaway, West Hills, Wyandanch, Gardiners L, Cold Sp. Harb. 



(D&B). 

 L. murphyi Forel. Bronxville (Wheel); West Farms (Angus); SI: St. George, 



New Brighton, Clove Val., Watchogue (D&B) ; LI: Rockaway, Baldwin, 



Cold Sp. Harb. (D&B). 



Formica Linnaeus ^^i 

 (Subgenus FORMICA Linnaeus) 



F. sanguinea Latr. subsp. aserva Forel. Wilmington, Mt. Whiteface, Ds (Beq) ; 

 Mt. Skylight, Cliff Mt. (Beq); Rock City, Ds (Beq). One of the slave- 

 makers. 



F. sanguinea Latr. subsp. rubicunda Emery. Ithaca (Beq) ; Oliverea, Ds (Beq) ; 

 Slide Mt., Ds (Beq); Bronxville (Wheel); LI: Coram (D&B). A slave- 

 maker, capturing F. subsericea. Nests under stones in grassy places along 

 the edges of woods (Wheel). 



F. sanguinea Latr. subsp. subintegra Emery. White Plains (Beq) ; Mosholu, 

 Bronxville (Wheel) ; SI: New Brighton, Clove Val., Watchogue, etc. (D&B) ; 

 LI: Yaphank, Half Way Hollow Hills, Riverhead, Pinelawn (D&B). Also 

 enslaves jF. subsericea. 



F. sanguinea Latr. subsp. subintegra var. gilvescens Wheel. Tuckahoe (types). 

 Elsewhere known only from Wis. 



F. truncicola Nyl. subsp. integra Nyl. Keene Val., Not (Beq) ; Mt. Whiteface 

 (Beq) ; Ithaca, Debruce, E. Jewett, Oliverea, Ds (Beq) ; Ashokan, VKrochozu; 

 High Bridge, West Farms (Angus) ; Mosholu (Wheel) ; Bronxville; SI: 

 Richmond, Bradley's Road, Reed's Val., Great Kills (D&B) ; LI: Rockaway 

 Beach, Riverhead, Yaphank, Wyandanch, Wading R., Half Way Hollow Hills, 

 Long Beach, West Hills (D&B) ; Bergen Beach, VKrochow (Beq). Forms 

 great colonies in piles of large stones, or in old logs or stumps, stuffing the 

 crannies with dead grass and leaves. Prefers sunny glades or clearings in 

 the forests of hilly regions (Wheel). 



F. truncicola Nyl. subsp. obscuriventris Mayr. Ithaca (Beq) ; Saugerties, 

 VKrochow (Beq) ; LI: Riverhead, Coram, Pinelawn, Wading R., Amagansett, 

 Gardiners I., Cold Sp. Harb. (D&B). Under large stones in open woods, often 

 banking the edges of the stones in the vegetable debris. The colonies are 

 much smaller than those of the preceding (Wheel). 



F. truncicola Nyl. subsp. obscuriventris var. gymnomma Wheel. LI: Cold Sp. 

 Harb. (types). 



F. difficilis Emery. Ithaca (Beq) ; Bronxville (Wheel) ; SI: Long Neck, Wat- 

 chogue, Clove Val., etc. (D&B) ; LI: Coram, Gardiners L, Calverton, Yaphank, 

 Selden, Orient Pt., Pinelawn, Half Way Hollow Hills, Wyandanch, River- 

 head (D&B). Nests under stones, which it banks with vegetable detritus. 

 Occurs sporadically in open woods from NY to N. Car. (Wheel). 



F. exsectoides Forel. The Mound-Building Ant of the Alleghenies. Rock 

 City, Ds (Beq) ; Ithaca; Slaterville (Bdy) ; Garrison-on-Hudson, Ckll (Beq) ; 

 Oliverea, Ds, Palenville (Beq); Ramapo Mts., Bronxville (Wheel); South- 

 fields, Schott (Beq); West Farms (Angus); SI: Richmond, Kreischerville, 

 Annadale, Mariner's Harb., Bradley's Road, Tottenville (D&B); LI: Wyan- 

 danch, Amagansett, Yaphank, Wading R., Selden, Montauk, Farmingdale 



"^A revision of the ants of the genus Formica. By William Morton Wheeler. Bui. Mus. 

 Comp. Kool., Harvard Univ., 1913, 53:379-565. 



