128 



ab. bninnea, Dz., " Jahre. Wien. Ent. Ver.," xiii. (1903), p. 



48. 

 ab. blachieri, Dz., " Jahre. Wien. Ent. Ver.," xvi. (1906), p. 



85. 

 ab. cim/idata, Dz., " Jahre. Wien. Ent. Ver.," xiv. (1903), p. 



48. ' 

 ab. confluens, Dz., " Deut. Ent. Zeit., Iris.," xv., p. 836 (1902). 

 ab. dziurzynskii, Hske., " Jahre. Wien. Ent. Ver.," xvi., 



p. 93 (1905). 

 ab. ricuE, Hb., 11. 

 ab. bellis, Hb., 10. 



ab. trhti!>, Oberth., " Et.," viii., p. 29. 

 ab. antiochena, Stgr., " Berl. e. Zeit.," p. 31 (1887). 

 ab. arrai/oncnsis, Stgr., "Berl. e. Zeit.," p. 34 (1887). 

 var. phcenicea, Stgr., " Berl. e. Zeit.," p. 35 (1887). 

 var. bitorquata, Men., " Cat. Kais.," p. 259. 

 Note. — Genitalia in the Anthrocerid^. — The facts as known 

 up to 1899 were summarized by the late J. W. Tutt, in " Brit. 

 Lep.," vol. i., pp. 420-422, based largely upon the writings of 

 Buchanan White (" Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.," (5) viii., pp. 467-476), F. 

 N. Pierce ("Brit Nat.," 1889, p. 55, and 1892, p. 80), and the 

 investigations and opinions of W. H. B. Fletcher and Dr. 

 Chapman. 



NOVEMBER 12th, 1914. 

 Mr. a. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. A. Sich exhibited a living specimen of Pyrameis cardvi 

 picked up from the pavement near the tube station in Holborn that 

 afternoon. 



Mr. H. Moore read the following note, and exhibited the species 

 of ant mentioned : — 



" Note on a small colony of ants in a banana.— Recently one 

 of the Lewisham Sanitary Inspectors (Mr. J. Crowther) sent me a 

 portion of a banana still attached to the stem, containing a small 

 colony of ants, consisting of one large and four small workers, and 

 six larvae, with a request for information concerning them. Mr. 

 Meade- Waldo of the Natural History Museum has kindly identified 

 them as Cawponntiis abdomincdis, Fab., var. stercorariiis. Fab., and 

 informs me ' it is not infrequentl}'^ imj)orted in fruit from Jamaica 

 and the West Indies, and is widely distributed throughout South 



