L. G. Wesson, Jr.
Strumigenys venatrix Wesson and Wesson Synonymous with S. talpa Weber.
Psyche 56:21, 1949.

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divided into 3 parts to correspond to its segments, more or less widely margined, translucent or foliaceous, and without teeth.
Genus Paracryptocerus Emery,
subgenus Cyathomyrmex Creighton
Gyathocephalus Emery, 1915, Bul. Soc. Ent. de France, p. 192.
Preoccupied by Kessler, 1868.
Type: Cryptocerus 'pollens King. By original des- ignation.
Cyathomyrmex Creighton, 1933, Psyche 40: 98. New
name.
STRUMIGENYS TESTATRIX WESSON AND WESSON SYNONY- MOUS WITH S. TALPA WEBEE.-In the course of his studies of dacetine ants, Mr. William L. Brown, Jr. secured a loan of the type of S. talpa Weber (1934, Psyche, 41: 63- 65, fig. 1) from the collections of the Illinois Natural History Survey. This specimen he very kindly placed at my disposal, since I had not seen it during earlier studies on Strurnigenys in Ohio (Wesson and Wesson, 1939, Psyche, 46: 91-112, PI. 3). The type of talpa proves to be indistinguishable from paratypes of 8. vena- trix which I had described from southern Ohio, and the latter name should be dropped.
According to Brown's recent revision of the dacetine genera, 8. talpa should be transferred from the genus Strumigenys Fred. Smith to the genus SmitMstruma Brown (1948, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 74: 101-129,Z figs,). -LAURENCE G. WESSON', JR., Department of Physiology, New York University College of Medicine.



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