210 FORMlCID.lv. 



the metanotura lonpf, rounded aliove and truncate at apex. 

 Pedicel elongate; the nodes from above square, subequal, the 

 1st node anteriorly ])etiolate ; abdomen not much longer than and 

 similar to that of the ^ . Wings as in the $ . 



Lencith, ^ l-S-2-3; $8-9: S 4-4-5 mm. 



Hah. Throughout our limits, and spread (probably carried and 

 introduced by shipping) through the torrid regions of both 

 hemispheres. 



243. IVrouoinorium minutum, Mayr, Verh. zool.-hot. Ges. Wien, V 



(1S.>3), p. 453, $. 

 Mju-mica (Mouomoi'ium) carbouaria, Smith, Cat. vi (1858), p. 127. 



^ . Head and thorax dark chestnut-brown, abdomen black, 

 sometimes entirely black (Smith's type) ; very smooth, polished 

 and shining ; pilosity pale, very sparse. Head longer than broad, 

 posteriorly transverse ; mandibles narrow, with the masticatory 

 margin oblique, armed with 4 teeth ; clypeus very convex, ante- 

 riorly rounded ; antennae moderately long, the scape very nearly 

 reaching up to the top of the head ; eyes comparatively large, 

 placed in the middle of the sides of the head. Thorax : the pro- 

 mesonotum couvex, moderately lai'ge, the meso-metanotal suture 

 and emargination well-marked ; the metanotum compressed, basal 

 portion rectangular, flat, the apical portion truncate, vertical. 

 Pedicel: the nodes from above subequal, the 1st node a little more 

 rounded and petiolate antei'ioi'ly ; the 2nd node transverse, broader 

 than long, not broader but lower than the 1st node ; abdomen 

 oval. 



Length, ^ 1*5-2 mm. 



Hab. Tiecorded within our limits from Travancore {Rothneij) ; 

 found also in Southern Europe, Africa, and North America. 



The above description is of M. carhoaarium, which there is no 

 doubt is but a slight variety of the European M. hiinutum, Mayr. 



244. Monomoriiim gracillinnim, Smith (Mvrmica), Jour. Linn. Soc. 



vi (18(31), p. 34, ^ . 



^ . Head and thorax reddish yellow ; antennre, legs and the 

 nodes of the pedicel a paler shade of the same ; abdomen dark 

 brown, A\ith a patch of very pale rather sordid yellow at the base ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen smooth and shining, with some minute 

 widely-spaced shallow punctures, the metanotum above delicately 

 and rather obscurely transversely striate ; pilosity pale, very 

 sparse. Head remarkably convex, a little longer than broad, 

 the posterior lateral angles completely rounded, the occiput be- 

 tween them transverse ; mandibles with the masticatory margin 

 very oblique, armed with 4 teeth ; clypeus convex in the middle, 

 the anterior margin depressed inwards ; antennte short, slender, 

 the scape falliug short of the top of the head by one-fourth of its 

 own length ; eyes small, lateral, placed below the middle of the 



