1939] 
A New Subspecies of Crematogaster 
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A NEW SUBSPECIES OF CREMATOGASTER 
MIN U TISSIMA WITH REVISIONARY NOTES 
CONCERNING THAT SPECIES. 
(HYMENOPTERA :FORMICID^]) 
By William S. Creighton 
College of the City of New York. 
In 1895 Carlo Emery published the second half of his mon- 
ograph dealing with North American ants. A considerable 
proportion of the material on which this work was based had 
come to Emery from Pergande who was, at that time, con- 
nected with the National Museum. As a general rule Per- 
gande gave no names to the ants which he sent to his col- 
league probably because, in most cases, he was not sure as to 
what was new. In the instance which I wish to discuss here, 
however, Pergande had not only recognized the form as new 
but had selected the name which it now bears. There seems to 
be no other interpretation which can be placed upon Emery’s 
treatment of Crematogaster victima subsp. missouriensis. 
Emery attributed this form to Pergande, stating that the 
latter had used the name in litteris. There is no method 
whereby one can determine whether Pergande was actually 
preparing to publish a description of missouriensis and it 
makes very little difference if he was. Emery accompanied 
his citation of the form with a brief characterization per- 
mitting its recognition. This, of course, is the original de- 
scription of missouriensis , which is to be attributed to Emery 
and not Pergande. I do not doubt that many would regard 
this as a flagrant case of name-grabbing but it is by no means 
certain that such was the case. It is difficult to believe that 
Emery supposed that he could give missouriensis to Per- 
gande by merely citing him as author. It seems more prob- 
able that Emery was under the impression that Pergande 
would publish the description of the new form before the 
appearance of his (Emery’s) monograph and that he inad- 
