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Psyche 
[February 
BURMESE ANTS COLLECTED BY PROFESSOR G. E. 
GATES. 
By William Morton Wheeler. 
In 1923 Professor Gordon E. Gates of Judson College, 
Rangoon, Burma, sent me a small but interesting series of For- 
micidse which he collected in that locality. Most of the forms are 
well-known and widely distributed in the Indomalayan Region, 
but the collection includes a new species of Aphsenogaster and a 
new variety of M nidus binghami Forel. 
Dorylin^]. 
Dorylus ( Typhlopone ) orientalis Shuckard. A few soldiers and 
workers. 
Quietus binghami Forel var. gatesi var. nov. 
Worker. Differing from the typical form of the species in 
having the pronotum entirely opaque and densely punctate like 
the remainder of the thorax. The petiole is also more coarsely 
punctate, more opaque and darker in color. 
Numerous specimens from a single colony. 
PONERINiE. 
Odontoponera transversa F. Smith. Several workers and a winged 
female. 
Diacamma scalpratum F.Smith. Numerous workers. 
Diacamma rugosum Le Guill. subsp. vagans F. Smith, var. bir- 
manum Emery. Numerous workers. 
Bothroponera bispinosa F. Smith. A few workers. 
Ectomomyrmex astutus F. Smith. A few workers. 
Euponera (. Brachyponera ) luteipes Mayr. Several workers. 
Leptogenys ( Lobopelta ) diminuta F. Smith. A single worker. 
Leptogenys ( Lobopelta ) kitteli Mayr. Several workers. 
PSEUDOMYRMINiE. 
Sima rufonigra Jerdon. Several workers. 
Tetraponera binghami Forel. A few workers. 
Tetraponera allaborans Walker. A few workers. 
