OS BRITISH ANTS. 



Essex, N. : Colchester and Dovercourt 41 . 



Middlesex : London (Bostock 6 , etc.). 



Berks : Reading 46 . 



Suffolk, E. : Ipswich (Morley) 38 ; Wherstead (Morley) 38 . 



Norfolk, E. : Norwich (Bridgman) 21 ; Norfolk, W. : King's 

 Lynn (Atmore). 



Gloucester, W. : Stonehouse and Stroud (Farren-White) 35 ; 

 Bristol (Morice Coll.). 



Warwick : Birmingham 43 . 



Glamorgan : Cardiff (Hallett). 



Lancashire, S. : Liverpool (Bostock) 8 ; Manchester (Gillam) 2 * ; 

 Stockport (Gaskell) 25 . 



York, S.E. : Hull 48 ; York, N.E. : Middlesborough (/. Sharp) 23 ; 

 York, N.W. : Leeds 48 . 



Durham : Dipton district, etc. 44 ; Ryhope near Sunderland. 



Cumberland : Carlisle 40 . 



Dumfries : Dumfries (E. Service) 37 . 



Lanark : Glasgow (J. F. X. King Coll}. 



Edinburgh : Edinburgh (Evans) 39 . 



Perth, Mid. : Grieff (Godfrey)* 2 ; Rannoch (Foxcroft, Brit. Mus. 

 Coll.). 



Kincardine : Auchniblae near Fordo wn (Water ston). 



Donegal : Ballyshannon (Halbert). 



Wicklow : Aghadoe Church (Holiday). 



Although Monomorium pharaonis is not a truly indigenous 

 insect to Britain, still it has become firmly established, and, as has 

 been seen, is widely distributed in our Islands, probably inhabiting 

 most of our large towns and sea-ports. Forel 52 , in a paper on the 

 Geographical Distribution of Ants, enumerated eleven cosmo- 

 politan species which have been transported everywhere by ships, 

 this ant being one of them. It has evidently been breeding here 

 for nearly one hundred years probably longer and appears to 

 have been first recorded in London in 1828 22 . It was notified 3 as 

 being very abundant in 1833 in the kitchen of a house in Kensington 

 Gravel Pits, and Spence 4 pointed out in 1834, that it was so 

 numerous in several houses in London and Brighton that the 

 inhabitants had to quit their dwellings. At a meeting of the 

 Entomological Society of London on November 7th, 1836, Bostock 6 

 stated that it was inhabiting the kitchen of his house in Upper 

 Bedford Place, and that it extended from Gray's Inn Lane in the 

 east as far as Regent Street in the west, from the commencement 

 of Somers Town to the Strand, and that it occurred in Hampstead 

 and Southwark ; Waterhouse remarked that it was to be found in 

 Billingsgate. It has also been recorded from Portman Square in 

 1852 11 , Regent's Park district in 1853 12 , and Russell Square in 

 1865 20 . Colonel Bingham 47 gives it in his list of the ants at Kew 



