110 BRITISH ANTS. 



Formica rubra was described by Linnaeus [Syst. Nat. ed. 10 580 

 (1758)] as follows : 



" F. testacea, oculis punctoque sub abdomine nigris." 



It is in the twelfth edition [Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12 963 (1767)] 

 that he uses the words " pessime nostratum pungens." 



Table of the Species. 



Scape of antennae abruptly bent at base -2 



Scape of antennae evenly curved 4 



2 / Scape of antennae ridged or toothed 3 



(1) 1 Scape of antennae not ridged nor toothed 3 sulcinodis Nyl. 



3 I Scape of antennae with strong transverse ridge at bend - 5 lobicornis Nyl . 



(2) -! Scape of antennae with more or less developed lateral tooth at bend 



4 scabrinodis Nyl. 



4 I Epinotal spines longer than their basal width, transversely striate 

 I between - 2 ruginodis Nyl. 



(1) I Epinotal spines not longer than their basal width, smooth between 

 [ 1 laevinodis Nyl. 



1 ( Scape of antennae less than half the length of the funiculus 



scabrinodis Nyl. 



- ( Scape of antennae not less than half the length of the funiculus 2 



2 ( Scape of antennae abruptly bent at base lobicornis Nyl. 



( 1 ) \ Scape of antennae evenly rounded 3 



3 f Frontal area longitudinally striate sulcinodis Nyl. 



(2) \ Frontal area not striate 4 



4 / Posterior tibiae with long sub-erect hairs laevinodis Nyl. 



(3) \ Posterior tibiae with short decumbent hairs ruginodis Nyl. 



Myrmica laevinodis Nyl. 



Myrmica laevinodis Nylander Acta. Soc. Sc. Fenn. 2 927 l 943 PI. XVIII 

 Fig. 4 2 (1846) ; Curtis Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 21 213 (1854) 3 . Myrmica 

 longiscapus Curtis Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 21 213 (1854) 4 . Myrmica laevinodis 

 F. Smith Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n.s.) 3 118 (1855) 5 . Myrmica longiscapa 

 F. Smith Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n.s.) 3 122 (1855) 6 . Myrmica laevinodis 

 F. Smith Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n.s.) 4 279 (1858) 7 : Cat. Brit. Foss. Hym. 

 23 (1858) : Ent. Ann. 1874 147 PI. [I] Fig. 3 9 . Myrmica rubra race laevinodis 

 Forel Denkschr. Schweiz. Ges. Naturw. 26 271 10 380 11 414 12 (1874). Myrmica 

 laevinodis Saunders Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880 215 13 . Myrmica incompleta 

 Provancher Nat. Canad. 12 359 (1881) 14 . Myrmica laevinodis Er. Andre 

 Spec. Hym. Europe 2 316 (1881) 15 ; Cooke Nat. Yorks 8 30 (1882) 16 ; Was- 

 mann Stett Ent. Zeitg. 51 299 (1890) 17 : zusam. Nest, gemischt. Kolon. 

 Ameisen 9 (1891) 18 ; Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 110 (1893) 19 ; Farren- White 

 Ants' Ways 240 (1895) 20 . Myrmica rubra race laevinodis Saunders Hym- 

 Acul. 39 (1896) 21 . Myrmica laevinodis D. Sharp Cambs. NH. Insect. 2 

 148 (1899) 22 ; Escherich Ameise 216 (1906) 23 ; Donisthorpe Trans. Leicester 

 Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 227 (1908) 24 . Myrmica rubra levinodis Emery Deutsch. 

 Ent. Zeitschr. 1908 170 26 . Myrmica levinodis Wheeler Journ. Econom. Ent. 

 1 337-339 (1908) 26 . Myrmica rubra subsp. levinodis Wheeler Ants 566 

 (1910) 27 ; Myrmica laevinodis Wasmann Biol. Centralb. 30 454 (1910) 28 . 

 Myrmica levinodis Wheeler Journ. New York Ent. Soc. 19 163 (191 1) 29 . 



