MYRMICID.E. 33 



L. (J 3 mm., ? 4 mm., ? 3 mm. 



Worthing; Shiere; Ilfracombe; Bideford. Isle of Wight; 

 (Curtis) ; Luccombe Chine ; (Smith). Portland ; Luhvorth ; 

 Charmouth; Cranborne; Hurst Castle, Fowey; (Da^e). Near 

 Down, Kent ; Stinchcombe Hill, near Dursley ; Stonehouse; 

 (TF. F. White). Carm Quarry, Plymouth ; (BiyntU). 



S and ? appear in September. 



TETEAMOEIUM, Mayr. 



(J and ? winged, much larger than the ? . ^ apterous, 

 (J antennre short, ten-jointed, $ and ? twelve-jointed, club 

 three-jointed, maxillary palpi four-jointed, labial palpi 

 three-jointed ; clypeus in the ? and ? with its basal 

 margin on each side reflexed, forming a carina, limiting 

 the antennary cavities in front; thorax in the S very 

 large, much wider than the head, mesonotum very much 

 raised, and produced in front over the prothorax, with two 

 converging impressed lines, propodeum in the ? and 

 ? with two spines ; abdomen with the fii'st joint of the 

 petiole much elevated and widened posteriorly, second 

 short, transverse; wings in the c? and 5 large and hyaline, 

 with one sub-marginal and one discoidal cell. 



We bave only one indigenous species of this genus which 

 is common in many localities ; it forms variable sized com- 

 munities, and in South Europe and the Mediterranean 

 regions it runs into a great number of varieties; its nests 

 are usually underground, or under stones. Forel saya 

 that it rarely keeps aphides in its nests, and that the 

 workers carry one another in a manner peculiar to this 

 genus and Myimica. The carrier seizes the one she wishes 

 to carry by the external edge of one of her mandibles and 

 then throws her over her back, so that she lies along the 

 back of her porter with her ventral aspect uppermost, and 

 her legs and antonna9 folded as in the nymph state. 



T. CaBSpitum, Linn. — <? pitchy black, mandibles, 



