392 APPENDIX. 
F, — Of a shining black: by reflection slightly 
bronzed. The first joint of the antenne is 
of a blackish brown, the second black. 
The scale, large, nearly quadrate, the supe- 
rior margin straight, slightly concave. 
Feet, the same as in the worker. Wings, 
slightly obscure, with the nervures and the 
marginal point of the superior, blackish. 
Vide P\. II. fig. 8. | 
M. — Black, very shining, nearly smooth. An- 
tenne, commonly black, sometimes of an ob- 
scure yellow, or half black and half fallow. 
Scale thick, nearly quadrate, the supe- 
rior margin longer, almost straight, slightly 
concave. Anus and the feet a palish yellow, 
haunches black. Superior wings, slightly 
obscure, with the nervures deeply yel- 
lowish, and the stigma blackish. Vide 
PL. IL. fig. 8. ~ 
The male and female are figured of the size repre- 
sented in the Plate, but larger than Latreille has 
them. This Author speaks of a variety in which 
the brown parts are much more fallow than in 
the above. This he has described in his little work, 
under the name of the Black Ant. (Fourmi 
noire.) The Fourmi noiratre of his monograph 
appears to me to be the same. 
Be this as it may, these three varieties, whose 
manners and habits are precisely the same, ought 
