68 BRITISH ANTS. 



c Shining black, legs and antennae brown, puncturation much finer than in 

 the$. 



Head trapezoidal, rounded behind ; antennae thirteen- jointed, scape and 

 first joint of funiculus short, somewhat smooth and shining, the other joints 

 of the funiculus elongate and pubescent. Thorax high ; scutellum arched ; 

 post-scutellum projecting. Pygidium terminating in a spine. Long, 3-4-3-8 mm. 

 (2-3 mm. teste Andre.) 



Ovum : long, cylindrical (some individual eggs however appear to be shorter) 

 and yellowish white in colour. 



Larva : Head fairly large, with strong horny mandibles, body clothed 

 with bristle capped tubercles, and four pairs of glutinous club-shaped tubercles, 

 situated on the dorsal part of the sixth and following somites. 



Pupa : enclosed in somewhat dark cases. 



Original description of P oner a coarctata Latreille [Bull. Soc. 

 Philom. Paris 3 No. 57, 65 (1802)] : 



" Operaria. Elongata, subcylindrica, fusco-brunnea ; oculis nullis aut 

 obsoletis ; squama nodiformis, subcubica, antennis pedibusque flaves- 

 centibus. Long. 0,004. = 1 lig. f." 



Habitat. 



Ponera coarctata occurs in South Europe, the Caucasus, and 

 Algeria, and extends northwards to Paris and Aachen 34 , two 

 varieties occurring in Europe, and three subspecies in Australia, 

 Africa and N. America 39 . 



The British distribution is as follows : 



Cornwall, E. : Mount Edgcumbe 31 . 



Devon, S.: Plymouth (Reading) 13 ; Exeter (Parfitt) 13 . 



Isle of Wight : Ventnor (Dale) 15 ; Sandown (Fowler) 17 . 



Dorset: Swanage (Nevinson) ; West Lulworth Cliffs (Haines). 



Hants, S. : New Forest (Hamm). 



Sussex, E. : Brighton (Power} 1 ; Pett (Bennett). 



Kent, E. : Deal (Dale) 15 ; Doddington (Donisthorpe) 26 ; 

 Throwley 33 Charing 27 and Chatham 28 (Chitty) ; Folkestone 

 (Power VI. 60. Rothney-Coll) ; Kent, W. : Upnor (Power X. 65, 

 Rothney-Coll) ; Darenth Wood (Donisthorpe) 37 . 



Surrey : Mickleham (D. Sharp) 9 ; Merton (Power) 9 ; Shiere 

 (Capron) 18 ; Weybridge (Billups) 23 ; Gomshall (E. A. Butler) 25 ; 

 Stoat's Nest (W. E. Sharp) 31 ; Chipstead (Bedwell) ; Box Hill 

 (Donisthorpe) 37 ; Wandsworth (F. H. Waterhouse). 



Middlesex: St. James' Park (Westwood) 5 ; Kentish Town 

 (Baly) 6 ; Chelsea and Pimlico 4 (Westwood and Ingpen). 



Warwick : Warwick (Baly) 10 ; Sutton Coldfield (Bradley) 2 *. 



Lancashire, S. : Manchester (Cooke) 12 ; near Liverpool (Cooke) 23 . 



Durham : South Shields 30 . 



Ponera coarctata was first discovered in Britain by Professor 

 J. 0. Westwood 5 who captured it in St. James' Park in London. 



