116 



BRITISH ANTS. 



20 (1858) 6 ; Elwin Science Gossip 1871 245-248'; H. Miiller Befmcht. d. 

 Blumen 464 (1873) 8 . Myrmica rubra race ruginodis Forel Denkschr. Schweiz. 

 Ges. Naturw. 26 142 9 225 10 380 11 (1874). Myrmica ruginodis Elwin Science 

 Gossip 1874 58-60 12 ; Swinton Ent. Mo. Mag. 14 187 (1878) 13 ; Lubbock 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 14 270 (1878) 14 ; Saunders Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1880 214 15 ; Parfitt Ent. Mo. Mag. IK 43 (1881) 16 ; Er. Andre Spec. Hym. 

 Europe 2 317 (1881) 17 ; Lubbock Aiits, Bees, Wasps 32 (1882) 18 ; Farren- 

 White Ants' Ways 239 (1885) 19 . Myrmica rubra race ruginodis Saunders 

 Hym-Acul. 40 (1886) 20 . Solenopsis fugax Provancher Nat. Canad. 17 22 

 (1886) 21 . Myrmica ruginodis Wasmann Stett. Ent. Zeitg. 51 306 308 (1890) 22 : 

 zusam Nest. u. gemischt. Kolon. Ameisen 16-17 (1891) 23 ; Bignell Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. 28 135 (1892) 24 ; Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 115 (1893) 25 ; Wasmann 

 Biol. Centralb. 13 39 (1893) 26 ; Morice Ent. Mo. Mag. 30 260 (1894) 27 . 

 Stenamma westwoodi Malloch Fauna, Flora, Geol. Clyde Area 219 (190 1) 28 . 

 Myrmica ruginodis Donisthorpe Trans. Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 227 

 (1908) 29 . Myrmica rubra ruginodis Emery Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1908 

 171 30 . Myrmica ruginodis Donisthorpe Entom. 44 390 (191 1) 31 ; Morley 

 Proc. R. Irish Acad. 31 (24) 3 (191 1) 32 ; Donisthorpe Ent. Rec. 25 6-8 33 96 34 

 (1913) ; Beare Ent. Rec. 25 258 (1913) 35 . 



Fig. 64. Epinotum, spines, and pedicel of Myrmica ruginodis <^>. 



Reddish yellow ; sometimes much darker, the head pedicel and gaster 

 being blackish brown. Very like the preceding but on the average larger, the 

 body being always more rugose. 



Fig. 65. Antenna of Myrmica ruginodis $. 



Head a little broader than in laevinodis. Thorax : epinotal spines longer 

 than their basal width, transversely striate between. Petiole and post-petiole 

 longitudinally wrinkled, the latter not, or scarcely, shining. Long. 4-5-6 mm. 

 (5-5-5 mm. teste Forel.) 



Fig. 66. Antenna of Myrmica ruginodis 



