INJURIOUS INSECTS. 



Monomorium Pharaonis (Linn.). 

 The Little Red Ant. 



(Ord. Hymenoptera : Fam. MYRMiciDiE.) 



Linnaeus: Syst. Nat , Tom. i, pars ii, 1767, p. 963 (described d.?, Formica 



Pharaonis). 

 Say: in Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., i, 1835, PP- 293-294 {Myrmica ynolesta, 



description, habits) : Comp. Writ., Lee. Edit, ii, 1883, p. 737. 

 Fitch: in Trans. N. Y. State Agr. Soc. for 1854, 1855, p. Z^t^, 834; 



same in ist Rept. Nox.-Ben. Ins. N. Y., 1856, pp. 129-130 

 ^ (habits in houses, fields) ; in Trans. N. Y. Slate Agr. Soc. for 



1865, 1866, p. 133, {Myrmica molesta on corn, attacking cut- 

 worms). 

 Packard: Guide Study Ins., 1869, p. 185 {Mymiica molesta in houses 



all over the world); Entomol. for Beginn., 1888, p. 171 (mention). 

 Riley: 2nd. Mo. Rept., 1870, p. 11 {Myrmica molesta troublesome in 



England, widely distributed); 9th do., 1877, p. 43 (in England); 



in Scientific Amer., lii, 1885, p. 183 (as small red ant, remedies); 



in Insect Life, ii, 1889, pp. 106-108, fig. 18 {Myrmica molesta 



a synonym, life-history, remedies). 

 Bethune: in nth Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont. for 1880, 1881, p. 88 



(remedies for ants in houses). 

 Lintner: ist Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1882, p. 62 (remedies, synonymy), p. 321 



(injuring corn); loth do., 1895, p. 366 {Motwmorium molestum 



in walks); in Gardening, iv, 1895, p. 12 (remedies for red ants 



in houses). 

 Comstock: in Kingsley's Stand. Nat. Hist., ii. Crust, and Ins., 1884, p. 



520 (mention as Myrmica molesta). 

 Bowles: in 15th Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont., 1885, p. 6^^ {Myrmica 



jHolesta, mention). 

 Hunt: in Miss. Ess. Econom. Ent., 1886, p. 58 (as Solenopsis molesta, 



on corn, etc.). 

 Cresson : Synopsis Hymenop. Amer., 1887, p. 262. 

 Bellevoye: in Ann. Soc. Entomol. France, viii, 1888, pp. clxxvii-clxxxi 



(observation on in France) ; the same translated and condensed 



in Insect Life, ii, 1890, pp. 230-233. 

 Schwarz : in Insect Life, i, 1888, p. 40 (in Florida). 

 Fernald: Bull. 5 Hatch Expt. Station, Mass., 1889, p. 10 (remedies for 



ants in houses). 

 Provancher: Add.-Corr. Faun. Ent. du Canada, ii, 1889, p. 240 (dis- 

 tribution and injuries). 



