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A NOTE ON THE ANT GNAMPTOGENYS HARTMANI 
WHEELER. — Workers and winged females of this ant were 
received recently from Dr. M. R. Smith of the U. S. National 
Museum and were determined by direct comparison with the type 
in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The sample represents a 
nest taken in the soil of a banana plantation on Zapote Farm, La 
Lima, Honduras, May 18, 1961 (E. Molendez leg.). This is the 
first record of the species to come to light since the original description, 
published in 1915, based on a single worker specimen fromi Huntsville, 
Texas (C. G. Hartman leg.). The type locality in northeastern 
Texas has always seemed anomalous for a genus otherwise confined 
to a more strictly tropical climate and not known from any other 
samples occurring natively within the continental United States, but 
until the present find, the good possibility remained that G. hartmani 
was an extralimital relict. It now seems more likely that the Texas 
Record represents either a locality error or an adventive specimen taken 
from bananas. No ecological data accompanied the original find. At 
least, the occurrence of this (or other) species of Gnamptogenys in 
Texas remains to be convincingly demonstrated. — W. L. Brown, Jr., 
Department of Entomology, Cornell University. 
