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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



sculptured ; thorax and nodes of pedicel distinctly wrinkled longitudi- 

 nally. L. 21". 



Antenn-e of M. scabkinodis v. sabuleti. 

 Fig. 7. 5 • Fig. 8. <? . 



^ : — Black ; antennae for the greater part, apex of abdomen, 

 joints of legs, and feet yellow ; antennal scape a third of the length of 

 the funiculus ; the last joint longer than the two preceding ones 

 together, often bent or divided in the middle ; antennte almost bare; 

 legs with long, oblique, sub-erect hairs ; first node of pedicel wrinkled 

 longitudinally ; wings greyish-brown to beyond middle. L. 2^-2f "." 

 {Trandaiion fruHi the Danish). 



I have taken males, winged and dejilated females, and workers of 

 this form, which is new to the British List, at Box Hill and the New 

 Forest in July, and at Seaton, when with Crawley, in August this 

 year. 



It is rightly considered a variety of M. scabmunlis, Nyl. 

 Emery'"' states the 2 and ^ are not to be distinguished with 

 ■certainty from the type form, and the 3 is to be known by the 

 longer scape which is as long as the first five joints of the funiculus. 

 In my experience, however, the females and workers have a much 

 more developed lateral tooth to the scape than in ^icahriiwdis proper, 

 and the longitudinal keel on the upper side, as described by Meinert, 

 is very distinct. It is fortunate that I should have obtained ^ 3 , 2 ? » 

 .and, of course ^ ^ , in all the nests I have found of this variety. 

 From these it is evident that when the scape in the c? is long, the 

 lateral tooth in the 5 and ^ is well developed, and sabuleti represents 

 the extreme form of development of scahrinndis in this direction. 



5. Mymica lobicornis, Nyl., Acta soc. sc. Fennic*, ii., 3, 1846, 

 p. 932. ^ ? . iii., 18i9, p. 31. cT • 



Mijriiiica denticornis, Curtis, Trans. Linn. Soc, xxi., 1854, p. 215. 



Mi/Diiica denticornis, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 2, iii., 1855, 

 p. 120. ^ <? ? . 



The scape in the ^ and $ is sharply bent, and is furnished on the 

 top at the bend with a strong transverse ridge, a character which will 

 at once distinguish it. This ridge, when seen in profile, has the 

 Appearance of a spine. The club of the antenn;e is more or less 

 distinctly three-jointed. In the S the scape is about half the length 



'0 Deatfsch. Ent. Zeitschr., 1908, p. 176. 



