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subsp. laeviuscula Mayr (with the vars. clara Mayr and 
calif ornica Emery) common in the Gulf States and Califor- 
nia. The six males seem to be cospecific with the small fe- 
males, since their wings are of the same color and also like 
those of laeviuscula. All the forms cited above were taken 
Sept. 22, 1929 in Robinson Park, Fort Wayne, Indiana, by 
Professor Kennedy from the same nest, which, he says (in 
litt.) “was large and under the loose bark of a cottonwood 
log. It contained workers, males, large brownish-black 
queens and many smaller shining red and black queens. 
These latter queens were a shining cherry red and a pitch 
black in life and acted differently from the ordinary queens. 
My memory is that they were more active. They were so 
different that I cannot believe they are the same species.” 
The specimens and Professor Kennedy’s notes suggest 
the following reflections : 
1. The colony might be said to represent a distinct and 
hitherto unknown variety of C. lineolata, character- 
ized by having dimorphic, or A — and B — females, 
like Lasius (Acanthomyops) latipes Walsh of North 
America and L. ( Dendrolasius ) spathepus of Japan. 
This is very improbable, if, as I believe, the males 
belong to the small red and black females. 
2. It is much more probable that these females and the 
males represent a distinct species parasitic in a flour- 
ishing C. lineolata, colony, but this again suggests the 
question as to whether the parasite possesses a 
worker caste or is workerless like such ants as Aner- 
gates, Anergatides, Epoecus and Wheeleriella. 
3. The absence of any workers other than those of the 
common lineolata in the material examined strongly 
indicates that the parasitic species is represented 
only by females and males, as in the genera just 
mentioned. 
4. If this interpretation is adopted we must suppose 
that the parasitic Crematogaster is phylogenetically 
a comparatively recent off-shoot of the host species, 
lineolata , because its morphological modifications are 
so feeble. In this respect it resembles such perma- 
