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[December 
SOME ANTS FROM THE BAHAMA ISLANDS 
By William Morton Wheeler 
Biological Laboratories, Harvard University 
Our knowledge of insect distribution in the Bahamas is 
very meager, limited as it is to a very few of the nearly 
seven hundred islands and cays composing the archipelago. 
Of the ants, a group of greater importance in zoogeograph- 
ical discussion than many other families or even orders less 
intimately dependent on the soil, I have records from only 
three of the islands. The account of these insects which I 
published nearly 30 years ago 1 was based on material which 
I collected on New Providence and Andros. Mann, 1920, in 
addition to recording and describing several new forms 
from the same localities, cited seven species collected by 
Bluff on Eleuthera Island 2 . I was glad, therefore, to receive 
from Dr. David Fairchild and Mr. James Greenway a col- 
lection of ants which they made on New Providence Island 
and on some thirteen of the other islands while they were 
collecting plants, birds and mammals on two expeditions, 
during 1932 and 1933, of Mr. Allison Armour’s yacht, the 
“Utowana.” Both gentlemen accompanied the first expedi- 
tion, but owing to Dr. Fairchild’s illness, Mr. Greenway 
alone collected ants on the second. The collection comprises 
22 forms, and though there are no new forms it furnishes 
two new records ( Iridomyrmex pruinosus and Camponotus 
planatus) for the archipelago. 
Ponerinse 
Odontomachus hdematoda insularis Guerin var. pollens 
Wheeler-Wemyss Bight and Bannermantown, S. Eleuthera 
I. g (Green way). 
1 Wheeler, W. M. The Ants of the Bahamas, with a List of the 
Known West Indian Species. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 21, 1905, 
pp. 79-135, 1 pi., 12 figs. 
2 Mann, W. M. Additions to the Ant Fauna of the West Indies and 
Central America. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42, 1920, pp. 403-439, 
10 figs. 
