212 Mr. E. Saunders' Si/nojms of British 



1. contracta, Latr, Hist. Nat. Fourm. p. 195, pi. vii. 



fig. 40. 



<? brown, somewhat shining ; head dull, strongly 

 punctured ; mandibles testaceous-red ; thorax shining, 

 rather remotely punctured ; abdomen covered with 

 somewhat decumbent pale hairs ; apex of the abdomen 

 paler, with a strong reflexed spine ; legs testaceous. 



? and ^ of a paler colour, but with the same strong 

 punctuation ; the maxillary palpi of two joints, the second 

 ending in a hair ; abdomen covered with pale hairs ; 

 eyes obsolete in the ^ ; wings of the $ as in the ^ . 



Length 3 — ^^4 mill. 



Hah. — Eare. Brighton ; Merton, Dr. Power ; Wey- 

 bridge, Mr. Billups. I have never taken it myself. 



2. punctatissima, Eog. Berl. Zeitsch. 1859, p. 246, pi. vii. 



fig. 7 (palpi). = tarda, Sm. 



Very like the above, but darker ; the punctuation of 

 the head is much finer, so fine indeed as to be hardly 

 discernible, and the pubescence of the abdomen adpressed, 

 not mixed with semi-prominent hairs, as in contracta ; 

 maxillary palpi 1-jointed. 



Length 3 — 4 mill. 



Hah. — Occasionally in houses ; native ? 



MYKMICID^. 



(]:,') 1. Wings not very dark, or if dark not longly 

 ciliated at the edges in ^ ; 1st node of petiole 

 much widened behind J and ^ . 



(11) 2. Metathorax spined in J and 5; mesothornx with 

 two impressed lines converging behind in the ^ 



(4) 3. I.ast 'S joints of flagelliim not nearly so long as 



its remainder in J and ^ ; apical nerve of sub- 

 marginal cell in (^ and J divided in two by a 

 transverse nervure . . . . . . . . Mynnica. 



(3) 4. Last 3 joints of flagellum as long or nearly as 

 long as its remainder in J and § I apical nerve 

 of submarginal cell in ^ not divided by a 

 transverse nervure. 



(()) 5. 2nd node ol petiole in J and ^ spined beneath ; 



(J with clypeus keeled . . . . . . . . Stenavima. 



(5) 0. 2nd node in J and § simple ; clypeus of ^ not 



keeled. 

 (10) 7. Hairs of thorax simple in $ and ^ ; antennae 



10- or 13-jointed in ^ ; if 13-jointed, then with 



1st joint of petiole very long. 

 (0) H. Eyes very small, and head reticulated behind in 



2 aud §; (J antenuii' 13-jointed .. .. Asemorlioptrum. 



(8) 9. Eyes not very small, and head longitudinally 



striate behind; (J antenna; 10-jointed .. Tctrainorium. 



