26 Psyche [February 
Botanobia (= Oscinis) insularis, sp. nov. 
Female: Black, slightly shining. Head yellow; frontal triangle black, slightly 
shining, the surface covered with gray dusting; third joint above, and both basal 
joints brown; proboscis glossy brown on basal portion; occiput concolorous with 
triangle. Mesonotum unstriped, and like the pleure thickly covered with gray 
pollinosity; scutellum gray pollinose. Abdomen generally yellowish on basal two 
segments, the others brownish black, shining. Legs yellow; darkened, brownish 
or blackish, on all coxe, all femora except apices, indistinctly on mid tibize and 
distinctly on middle of hind tibize and apices of tarsi. Wings clear, veins brown. 
Halteres yellow. 
Slender. Frons occupying one-half the head width, orange yellow; triangle 
as wide as vertex, and not reaching middle of frons, margined with hairs; surface 
of frons with scattered black hairs; antenne larger than usual, third joint slightly 
angular at upper margin of apex, distinctly pilose; arista with basal joints about 
two-thirds as long as apical portion and thickened, pubescence short but distinct, 
length of arista equal to width of frons; cheek half as high as width of third joint 
of antenna; palpi large, almost bare; eyes distinctly higher than long, pubescent. 
Mesonotum unpunctured, surface with very few weak hairs; scutellum with weak 
discal hairs and four marginal bristles. Legs normal. Wings with third costal 
division two-thirds as long as second; veins 3-4 subparallel; last section of fifth 
vein twice as long as penultimate section of fourth. 
Length: 1mm. 
Type: In collection of W. L. McAtee. 
Locality: Wallop’s Island, Virginia, June 1, 1913. (W. L. McAtee.) Three 
specimens. 
FORMICA EXSECTA IN JAPAN. 
By Wiuu1am Morton WHEELER, 
Bussey Institution, Harvard University. 
Among several Japanese ants recently handed to me for identi- 
fication by Mr. W. M. Mann there are a few specimens repre- 
senting an undescribed variety of Formica insecta. This species, 
though well known from northern and central Europe and Siberia, 
has not been taken hitherto east of the Altai Mountains of Mon- 
golia. 
Formica exsecta Nylander var. fukati ap oe 
Worker: Length 5-6 mm. 
Differing from the worker of the typical form in having the mesonotum in profile 
straight and sloping gradually to the mesoépinotal constriction, instead of convex. 
The notch in the superior border of the petiole is distinctly narrower and shallower, 
the gaster is darker, being black throughout and not red at the base of the first 
