MYRMICA. 133 



Original description of Myrmica sabuleti Meinert [Kong. Danske. 

 Vidensk. Selsk. Shrift. 5 327 (1861)] : 



" Dronning : Ubekjendt. 



Arbeider : R0dguul ; Bagkroppens Overside morkere. Antennernes 

 Skaft boiet i en naesten ret Vinkel, Roden med en Tand og paa Oversiden med 

 en h0i, skarp Laengdekjel. Pandefligene store, 0reformige. Pandeegnen heelt 

 eller tildeels rynket. Hovedets Sider med unregelmaessig Seulptur, Midten, 

 Thorax og Stilkens Knuder, de sidste staerkt, laengderynkede. L. 2J'". 



Han : Sort ; Antennerne for st0rte Delen, Bagkroppens Spidse, Benenes 

 Leddemode og F0dderne gule. Antennernes Skaft en tredie Deel af Sv0bens 

 Laengde, det sidste Led laengere end de to foregaaende tilsammen, ofte 

 boiet eller deelt i Midten. Antennerne naesten n0gne ; Benene med lange 

 skraat stillede, tildeels naesten lodrette Borster. Stilkens f0rste Knude 

 staerkt laengderynket. Vingerne graabrune til over Midten. L. 2-2f" / ." 



The following is a translation of Meinert's Danish description : 



: Unknown. 



$ : Reddish yellow ; gaster darker above. Antennal scape bent almost 

 at right angles, base with a tooth, and on the upper side with a high sharp 

 longitudinal keel. Frontal flaps large, ear-shaped. Frontal portion wholly 

 or partly wrinkled. Sides of head irregularly, thorax and nodes of pedicel 

 distinctly wrinkled longitudinally. Long. 2 lin. 



$ : Black ; antennae for the greater part, apex of gaster, joints of legs 

 and feet yellow. Antennal scape a third of the length of the funiculus, the 

 last joint longer than the two preceding ones together, often bent or divided 

 in the middle. Antennae almost bare ; legs with long, oblique, sub-erect 

 hairs. First node of pedicel wrinkled longitudinally. Wings greyish brown 

 to beyond middle. Long. 2|-2f lin. 



Habitat. 



According to Emery 3 this variety extends further south, in the 

 Palaearctic Region, than the type, and Wheeler 5 records it from the 

 northern states of North America. 



In Britain it has occurred in : 



Cornwall, E. : Whitsand Bay (Keys}. 



Devon, S. : Plymouth district (Keys] ; Seaton (Donisthorpe) 7 ; 

 Devon, N. : Lundy Island (Donisthorpe) 9 . 



Isle of Wight : The Landslip near Shanklin (Donisthorpe). 



Hants, S. : New Forest (Donisthorpe) 7 . 



Surrey : Box Hill (Donisthorpe) 7 . 



Herts: Hitchin (Durrant). 



Berkshire : Boar's Hill (Hamm). 



Oxford : Shotover (Hamm) 8 ; Wolvercote (Collins). 



Glamorgan : Cwrt-yr-ala (Hallett). 



Pembroke : Tenby (Donisthorpe) ; St. David's (Allen). 



Cheshire : Delamere (Arnold). 



Easterness : Loch-an-Eilean (Eothney). 



The habits of sabuleti are similar to those of scabrinodis. I found 

 a colony occupying the same mound as Donisthorpea flava in the 

 Isle of Wight in August, 1913, and have taken the males and 

 winged females in the nests in July, August, and September. 



