722 CATALOGUE OP THE DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA OP AUSTRALIA, 



PROTEUS, Sm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 465. 



North and West Australia, Swan River, Lizax'd Island. 

 VIOLACEA, Sm. I.e. p. 465. 



Swan River, W.A. 



85. STILBUM. 

 Stilhum, Spinola, Ins. Ligur. II. (1808). 



AMETHYSTINUM (GJirysis), Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 359, ^ ; Ent. 



Syst. II. p. 243; Syst. Piez. p. 176; Ghrysis calens, 



Fabr. Syst. II. p. 239 ; Syst. Piez. p. 171 ; Rossi, Faun. 



Etrus. II. p. 74 ; Stilhum splendidum, BruUe, Hist. Nat. 



des Ins. Hym. (St. Farg.) IV. p. 15, ^, 9 ; Dahlb. Hym. 



Eur. II. p. 358 ; Gerst. Peters' Reise Mossamb. p. 519 ; 



Sm. Jour. Linn. Soc. IV. p. 144 ; Stilbicm calens, Spin. 



Ins. Ligur. L p. 9 ; Brulle, Nat. Hist. Hym. IV. p. 16; 



Dahlb. Hym. Eur. II. p. 360, ^, $ ; Lucas, J^xplo. So. 



de r Alger. IIL p. 315, pi. xvii. fig. 13 ; Chevr. Chrys. 



du Bassin du Leman, 7 ; Stilhum wesmceli, Dahlb. Hym. 



Eur. II p. 359, (J ; Stilhum amethystiiuom, Sm. Jour. 



Linn. Soc. IV. p. 177. 

 Australia, Africa, Europe, and Asia. 

 310 SPLENDIDUM {Chrysis), Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 357, 9; Ent. 



Syst. II. p. 238; Syst. Piez. p. 170; Sm. Trans. Ent. 



Soc. 1874, p. 469. 

 Sydney, Moreton Bay, Pt. Essington, and Swan River. 



Family FORMICID^. 



A considerable number of Australian ants have been described, 

 and as many of our species have a very wide range, across to India 

 and Africa, some have been redescribed very often as new species. 



In Smith's British Museum Catalogue (1858) a number of new 

 species were described, and those described previously, catalogued. 

 Lowne, in the " Entomologist," Vol. II. (1865), described eighteen 

 new species from the neighbourhood of Sydney ; while Mayr, in 

 several papers, more particularly " Myrmecologische Studien " 



