Cremastogaster

Forel, A., 1893, Formicides de l'Antille St. Vincent. Récoltées par Mons. H. H. Smith., Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1893, pp. 333-418 : 399

Genre Cremastogaster , Lund.

Observed at the southern end of the island; thickets along the seashore, or near it. In this region the ants were very numerous on the ground, tree-trunks, and foliage. The females, generally two to four or five together, and attended by many workers, were found in crevices under the outer bark of Manchioneal and Landbox trees; each little nest was two or three inches long, and perhaps an inch broad, but many were on the same tree, and perhaps formed part of the same great colony. The females are very sluggish, and when the nest is uncovered generally cling to the bark of the tree by their jaws; the workers are active and pugnacious. There were many larvae in the nests, but I could find no males. Apparently the passages of the formicarium are short, and confined to the outer bark of the tree.