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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, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 36 : 443-446, 
(Aphcenog aster ) . 
N. cocherelli var. minor J. Enzmann, 1947, pp. 147-148, 
PI. 8, top. 
Aphcenogaster 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. 
6 V eromessor Forel, 1917, Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat., 51: 235 (described 
as subgenus of Novomessor ) . 
