64 THE KNTOMOLOGISt's RECORD. 



Allen and H. G. Champion sent me specimens from the Lizard, 

 Cornwall. 



L. iniihrafiia sub-sp. im'.rtii.i, Nyl. — I have a few more localities for 

 this sub-species. Harwood sent S ^ to me, among some ants to name 

 from Colchester, Best Gardner from Bourne End, Bucks., and Hallet 

 a deiilated J taken on the road in March at Cwyrt-yr-ala, in 

 Glamorgan. In my^^ paper on iiiij-tnK there is an unfortunate error, 

 which also occurs (no doubt unintentionally), in Forel.^'- In the table 

 for the ^ he gives as one of the distinctions between fJanis and 

 iDiibrotna and nii.vtiis — 1. " Ecaille . . un peu plus large en bas 

 qu'en haut " = tloviis. 2. "Ecaille plus etroite au sommet qu'a la 

 hik8e" = iinihiatns and mixtiiK. This I translated — 1. "Scale a little 

 broader at the base than at the apex," and 2. " Scale narrower at the 

 apex than at the base," which, of course, means the same thing. The 

 scale is broader at the apex in Jiaciix, and narrower in miibrntiis and 

 vrirtiia. I give a rough sketch of the scale of § ^ of the three ants in 

 question. 



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FlaVUS $ UmBEATUS 5 MiXTUS 2 



/.. v))ibratiis var. iiii.rto-Kuihratiis, ForeP". — Several colonies were 

 found at Weybridge this year, and in September <? J and winged 2 2 

 were secured. This variety is intermediate between imibratKs and 

 »(?.»f//,s, the hairs on the tibiae not being nearly so pronounced as in 

 vnibiritiis proper, etc. On July 18th I dug up a L. alieinis nest at 

 Weybridge and found that the queen of the colony was what at the 

 time I took to be a deiilated $ uii.i-tiia. Since she has died I have found 

 that she belongs to the var. iin'.rto-innbrotiis. The colony, which 

 contained many large and small cocoons, was carefully dug up and 

 taken home where it was established in a plaster-nest. All the cocoons 

 hatched, the large ones proving to be winged ? $ of alieniin, and the 

 small ones of course ? ^ . The nii.vto-iinibratna J was very active, 

 being exceedingly rapid in her movements, and very excited when 

 first dug up. She laid eggs on August 7th and was always treated as 

 their queen by the aliening ^ ^ , who fed and cleaned her and attended 

 to her brood. By September 1st small larv;e had hatched, and to-day 

 a number of larvre are present. The ^ ^ killed some of their own 

 winged 2 2 on November 1st, when the ;»/>?«-?^»/>y•a^^s 5 wasobserved 

 to be unwell, though carefully attended to by the ^ ^ . She gradually 

 lost the use of her legs, and in the end could only move her antennii^ 

 which she kept waving backwards and forwards. The ^ ^ cleaned 

 her and cariied her about, but on November 5th she was dead. 



On August 11th, when I had the pleasure of Professor Wheeler's 

 company, we found at Weybridge again, another )iri.r(()-ui)ibratiis 9 , as 



11 Ent.Rec, 1911, p. 236. 



12 loc. cit.. p. 47. 

 18 I.e., p. 48. 



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