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and after fourteen years of careful search I left India, I 

 fear for good, without finding i\iQ female of Dori/liis. 



Lohojielta diminuta, Smith. 



This ant is common enough in Bengal, but I have 

 never found any nest ; it is always on the march, and 

 moves in lines two deep, and from a few feet to many 

 yards long. The longest column I have met with was 

 in the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, and measured a 

 little over thirty yards. It marches at a great pace, 

 and seems to prefer shady and damp situations ; a 

 number of the workers will always be seen carrying 

 their pupse with them, which they do by holding them 

 under their bodies, and walking as it were over them. 



Lohopelta cliinensis, Mayr. 



A common ant in Bengal, but only found in small 

 numbers at a time, sometimes only single specimens, 

 and generally crawling about drains or damp shady 

 ground. 



Meranopliis hicolor, Smith. 



This pretty little species is common in Bengal, 

 although you only find it sparingly as to numbers ; it 

 forms its nests in the earth at a depth of a few inches, 

 and these seldom contain more than twenty to thirty 

 individuals. I have only once found the winged sexes 

 in the nest, viz., in May, 1873, in the Eden Gardens, 

 Calcutta, when I took one female and several males 

 (as described and figured in Frederick Smith's paper in 

 the 'Entomological Transactions' of March, 1865). I 

 have since taken one or two specimens of the female, 

 but always singly. The workers walk about singly or a 

 few together, and very much resemble, both in appear- 

 ance and habits, the females of some of the small species 

 of M'lUilla : indeed, I have at times captured a worker of 

 rather above the average size, thinking I had something 

 new in that genus. 



Plagiolejns gracilipes, Smith. 



Query also Hyyoclinea gracilipes, Mayr. 



This ant is common in Bengal, and can generally be 

 found running about between the stems of the smaller 



