December, '16] wheeler: Indian ant introduced 569 



worker, but very similar, apart from the usual differences in the 

 structure of the thorax, presence of ocelli and wings. The male is still 

 unknown. 



The following literature contains all or nearly all the important 

 references to T. striatidens: 



1903. Bingham, C. H. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 



Hymenoptera II, 1903, p. 173. (Description of T. striatidens and other Indian 



species of the genus.) 

 1906. Bingham, C. H. The Wild Fauna and Flora of the Royal Botanic Garden, 



Ivew. Bull. Misc. Inf. Roy. Bot. Gard. Kew. Add. Ser. 5, 1906, p. 28. {T. 



striatidens in propagating pits at Kew.) 



1908. DoNisTHORPE, Horace. Additions to the Wild Fauna and Flora of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 7. Bull. Misc. Inf. Roy. Bot. Gard. Kew, 1908, 

 p. 122. (T. striatidens in fern and palm houses at Kew.) 



1915. DoNiSTHORPE, Horace. British Ants, Their Life-History and Classifica- 

 tion. Plymouth, Wm. Brendon & Co., 1915, p. 341. (T. striatidens common ia 

 Kew Gardens.) 



1889. Emery, Carlo. Formiche di Birmania e del Tenasserim raccolte da Leon- 

 ardo Fea (1885-87) Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova (2) 7, 1889, p. 501. (Orig- 

 inal description of T. striatidens.) 



1891. Emery, Carlo. Revision Critique des Fourmis de la Tunisie. In Explor. 

 Sc. Tunisie 1891, p. 4. (7". striatidens recorded from Tunis and Sierra Leone.) 



1900. FoREL, A. Fourmis Importees. Bull. Soc. Ent. Suisse IC, 1900, p. 284. 

 (T. striatidens var. Icevidens imported into Hamburg from Mexico with orchids.) 



1901. FoREL, A. Formiciden aus dem Bismarck-Archipel. Mitth. Zool. Mus. 

 Berlin, 2, 1901, p. 10. (T. striatidens in Bismarck Archipelago.) 



1902. FoREL, A. Fourmis Nouvelles d'Austrahe. Rev. Suisse Zool. 10, 1902, 

 p. 449. (T. striatidens var. australis described from Queensland.) 



1902. FoREL, A. Les Formicides de I'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Pt. X. 



Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 14, 1902, p. 704. (T. striatidens recorded from 



Burma, Ceylon and "tout le continent de ITnde. Cette espece tend a devenir 



cosmopolite.") 

 1902. FoREL, A. MjTmicinffi nouveaux de ITnde et de Ceylan. Rev. Suisse 



Zool. 10, 1902, p. 239. {T. striatidens subsp. orissana described from Orissa.) 



1911. FoREL, A. Apercu sur la distribution geographique et la phylogenie des 

 Fourmis. l" Congr. Internat. d'Ent. Bruxelle, Aug. 1910, 2, 1911, p. 83. (Cos- 

 mopolitan distribution of T. striatidens mentioned.) 



1912. FoREL, A. Formicides Neotropiques. Part IV. Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 20, 1912, p. 1. {T. striatidens in Barbados.) 



1913. FoREL, A. Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylan, Gesammelt 

 von Herrn Prof. Dr. von Buttel-Reepen in den Jahren 1911-1912. Zool. Jahrb. 

 Abth. f. Syst. 36, 1913, p. 82. (7'. striatidens in Sumatra.) 



1909. Wheeler, W. M. Ants of Formosa and the Phihppines. Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. 26, 1909, p. 336. {T. striatidens in Formosa.) 



