Anochetus Mayri, Emery

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 : 356

Anochetus Mayri, Emery .

(No. 29 a a 29 f). [[ worker ]] [[ queen ]].

(29). Rather rare below 1500 ft., forming small colonies (three or four to twelve) under stones or sod, generally in shady places. The ants are sluggish.

(29 a). Lot 14. Estate (windward), 500 ft. April 5 th. Shady glen near a stream; under decayiag leaves on a rock ..

(29 b). Wallilobo Valley (leeward), 500 ft.; shady place, at the roots of sod on a rock. Nov. 8 th.. From two nests; the larger had about twelve ants.

(29 c). Forest above Chateaubelais (leeward), 1000 ft.; under a stone. A single specimen with one egg. Oct. 11 th.

(29 d). Bowwood Valley, near Kingstown, 800 ft. Oct. 21 st. Open hill-side, under a stone.

(29 e). Petit Bordelle Valley, 1200 ft. Nov. 13 th. Under sod on a rock. Apparently there were several small chambers connected by passages, the whole extending about one foot; fifteen or twenty ants occupied each chamber, and in one were about twenty yellow pupae.

(29 f). Richmond Valley; forest, 1100 ft. Dec. 29 th. Under fallen flowers.