130 HYMENOPTERA. 



Jli/rmecina has much thicker and shorter antenna" than 

 Myrmica, its legs are also shorter, stouter and uniformly 

 red. 



On the Continent this species has been taken at Vienna, 

 in the Tyrol, in Ukraine, Xassau, Wiesbaden, Bonn, Aix-la- 

 Chapelle, in Rhenish Prussia and also in Italy. 



In October last, I took a large number of Formicidce at 

 Lynmouth and Ilfracombe, but not a single species of any 

 rarity occurred ; it was certainly too late in the season to 

 form a correct estimate of the FormicidcE of that charming 

 portion of Xorth Devon; but I may record a very re- 

 markable departure from the normal habit of Formica 

 fuliginosa observed there— a species that usually burrows in 

 old decaying trees or posts ; near Ilfracombe, I observed 

 this ant inhabiting fissures in the rocks, on the top of one of 

 the highest Torrs, and also on Carntop ; in the lanes near 

 Coomb ^lartin, I found it inhabiting burrows it had formed 

 in the mud with which the walls at the roadside are appa- 

 rently built. 



In France, twenty-eight species of the genus Foj'mica 

 have been discovered, and about the same number also in 

 Germany ; at this time, the British species of that genus 

 only amount to twelve ; the Continental list of the Mi/rmi- 

 cid<s contains about twenty-eight species, whilst the British 

 one, only enumerates sixteen ; this discrepancy in numbers 

 ought to arouse English Hymenopterists to renewed vigour, 

 and, if my hope prove successful, of enlisting the co-opera- 

 tion of Coleopterists, and also collectors of other orders, to 

 turn their attention to these insects, I have no fear of 

 bringing up the list of British ants to a close approximation 

 with the Continental standard. 



