HYMENOPTERA MYBMICID2E. )lf> 



TriU- A.CULEAT^ r.atr.-illc. 



Family MYRMICID/E Lepelletier. 



AI'ILKNOGASTKI; Mayr. 



APH.KNTK ; ASTKR LONK.KVA. 

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.I/iA(i J /ioi;<i/r lougirra Sriulil., Rrp. I'rogr. (Jnol. i;en>;r. Snrv. Can., lH7">-l>f7li, Uti? ( 1*77 ). 



A single very obscure and fragmentary specimen, and its still more 

 obscure reverse, are the sole representatives of tliis species ; they exhibit a 

 crushed and confused mass of head, thorax, legs, and antennae, and the lai 

 part of a single front wing, apparently of a male. The wing is faintly infumated, 

 especially beyond the stigma, and the stigma itself is only a little deeper in 

 tint; the wing is also covered very sparsely with excessively delicate and 

 very short microscopic hairs. The cubital vein forks beyond the discoidal 

 cell by only one-third the width of the latter, and both the veins run to the 

 tip of the wing, although very faintly. This cell is shaped exactly as in A. 

 berendti Mavr, found in amber, and is distant from the scapular vein hv 

 oidy half its width ; the costal margin of the wing is more convex beyond 

 the stigma than in the amber species mentioned. 



The base of the wing is lost, but its probable length is 7""", and its 

 greatest, breadth is ;5""" ; length of stigma, O.S nim . 



Quesnel, British Columbia. One specimen, No. .'i.'J (l>r. (i M. I Jaw- 

 son, Geological Survey of Canada). 



MYK.MH'A Lat.vill,.. 



MYUMICA sp. 

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.Wyrmica sp. SrutM., Hull. If. S. Ociil. (it-ojjr. Snrv. Terr., IV, 74H (1><78). 



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A >|M-cii's of this family was found at (Jreen River, but a specific name 

 is \vithlirld in thf hope of finding better material on which to base it. The 

 h.'inl is rather small, circular: the thorax very regularly ovate and nearlv 

 t \vice fia 1 1 in ^ a> liri i.nl ; the peduncle small and composed of two adjoining 



