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fruit of the faroali plant {Bixa orellana) was not successful. Then, these methods 

 of enticing the insects were completed by inverting a round quake (a wide-mouthed 

 basket of very open wicker-work) over the bait, taking care to raise the quake so 

 that its lower edge was some inches from the ground. The butterflies, attracted by 

 the flowers, made their way under the raised edge of the quake, and when the 

 Indians approached flew, not out under the edge of the quake, but upward into the 

 top, where they were captured." — E. C. E,. 



Notes on British Ants. — Ernest Andre, in his Species des Hymenopteres For- 

 micides, pp. 271, 272, exposes an error into which entomologists have fallen with 

 respect to the supposed males of Stenamma Westwoodi and Asemorhoptrum lippula, 

 and clearly shows that at present the $ of one species only has actually been de- 

 scribed ; for my share in this blunder, I must apologize, as I described the $ of 

 Asemorhoptrmn from nature, but borrowed my characters of Stenamma from Smith, 

 Mayr, &c., and did not see the actual type, as I ought to have, which would probably 

 have saved me from the error. 



Westwood originally described Stenamma Westiooodi, Stephens, MSS., from the 

 <J , not knowing any other sex ; to this $ , the $ and $ of a quite distinct species 

 have been associated, so that what we have known, and F. Smith and myself have 

 described, as Stenam^na Westwoodi, has been the <? of one species, and the $ and $ 

 of another. The <J of what we have caWeA. Asemorhoptrum lippula exists in several 

 collections, and it now turns out, from Mons. Andre's examination, that these two 

 males are identical. As Westwood described his Stenamma Westwoodi before 

 Nylander characterized his Myrmica lippula, what we now know as lippula will 

 have to be called Stenamma Westwoodi, and the ? and $ of what we have called 

 S. Westwoodi will have to be known as Formicoxenus nitidulus, Nyl., the S of this 

 latter being as yet undescribed, the synonymy standing thus : 

 Stenamma Westwoodi, West. 



:= Stenamma Westwoodi, F. Smith, E. Saund., &c., $ {nee $ , §). 



= Asemorhoptrum lippula, F. Smith, E. Saund., et auct., ^ , ? , § . 

 Formicoxenus nitidulus, Nyl. 



= Stenamma Westivoodi, Smith, E. Saimd. (excl. <?), nee West. 

 While on the subject of British ants, T want to say a few words on the Bourne- 

 mouth ant, which I have referred to i^orwijca ^«^a/p.?, and for which Mr. Farren 

 White, in his recent book, "Ants and their ways," has proposed the w&me" glabra." 

 I think there is no doubt that Forel and Emery are right in uniting_/«5ca, 

 cinerea, cunicularia, and gagates as races under the one species, _/«sca, Linn. Of 

 these four races, fusca, cinerea, and cunicularia, have the abdomen clothed with 

 silken hairs, gagates has it glabrous with stiff bristles round the apex of the seg- 

 ments ; the specimen I have described from has the abdomen glabrous as in gagates 

 true, but is undoubtedly smaller and paler than continental specimens. On the 

 continent there are also intermediate forms, known iisfusco-gagates,fusco-cinerea, 

 cinereo-rufiharlis, und/usco-rujibarbis. Surely, it is more likely that our specimens 

 belong to some such intermediate form (possibly, cuniculario-gagates , if there is such 

 a thing), than to a new species "glabra,^' not known on the continent at all, especially as 

 my specimen only differs from typical gagates in being smaller and paler, and because 



