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Aphcenog aster and Novomessor clearly belong. One as- 
tounding error is the appearance of Lobognathus as a 
sub-genus in the key on page 152. This appeared to be 
miscopy of a large label earlier placed by Dr. Creighton 
on an unidentified specimen of V eromessor : Creighton ’s 
label in the Wheeler Collection reads “lobognathus new 
subspecies.” The name must be considered a lapsus 
and a synonym of V eromessor. I * * * * 6 
Two of the species described in this paper are minor 
workers, probably from incipient nests, of two well- 
known North American ants, which are listed below. 
Novomessor albisetosus (Mayr) 
Mayr, 1886, Yerh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 36: 443-446, 
(Aphceno g aster ) . 
N. cockerelli var. minor J. Enzmann, 1947, pp. 147-148, 
PI. 8, top. 
Aphcenog aster fulva Roger 
Roger, 1863, Berl. Ent. Zeitschrift, 7 : 190. 
Aphcenogaster fulva var. rubida J. Enzmann, 1947, pp. 
147-148, PI. 8, bottom. 
I have not considered other Enzmannian forms be- 
cause of my unfamiliarity with the groups concerned 
and because of my lack of time and taste for the task. 
The publications considered above should certainly sug- 
gest to all who examine them the need for some means 
of formal nullification of the published extremes of such 
irresponsible taxonomy. 
QVeromessor Forel, 1917, Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat., 51: 235 (described 
as subgenus of Novomessor). 
