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Leicestershire : Groby Pool (S. 0. Taylor). 



Cheshire : Bowdon (B. Cooke) 19 . 



Durham : South Shields (Bold) 13 . 



Northumberland, S. : Whitley and Blyth (Bold) 13 . 



Cumberland: near Carlisle (Vic. Hist. Cumberland) 30 ; Saddle- 

 back (Britten). 



Haddington : North Berwick (Evans)* . 



Edinburgh : near Inveresk (Evans)* . 



Fife and Kinross : N. Queensferry (Donisthorpe) 3 * ; Kinghorn 40 , 

 St. David's, and Isle of May (Evans). 



Perth, S. : Callander (Evans)* ; Perth, Mid. : Rannoch (Dale) 2 *. 



Easterness : Nethy Bridge (Donisthorpe) . 



Ebudes, Mid. : Isle of Mull (Donisthorpe) 39 . 



Sutherland, E. : Golspie. ( Yerbury) . 



Armagh : Armagh (Johnson) 27 . 



This species was first discovered in Britain by Curtis, who 

 captured males and workers in Scotland in 1825 5 , and subsequently 

 Dale found a female and workers at Rannoch 26 . F. Smith described 

 Dale's female in 1855 6 , but curiously enough when he recorded (in 

 1860) females taken by himself on the cliffs at Pakefield he stated 

 that it was the first time the female had been found in this country 9 . 



M. lobicornis lives in small communities, nesting chiefly in sandy 

 places, under stones, in banks, etc. It is the least warlike of our 

 species, possessing a feeble sting, and its habits are somewhat 

 similar to those of M . scabrinodis. It prefers to dwell in dry 

 places, but I once found it, on September 14th, 1911, on the Isle of 

 Mull in wet sphagnum in a bog 39 . According to Forel 17 , Andre 21 , 

 and Escherich 33 this Myrmica is chiefly a mountain species, and 

 the first of these myrmecologists records it on high pastures in the 

 region of the fir trees, rarely occurring in the plains, or as a sub- 

 alpine species, and states that the alpine forms are smaller and 

 darker. 



In Scotland I have found it near the Forth Bridge in the Low- 

 lands, and on the shores of Loch Rannoch and at Nethy Bridge 

 in the Highlands, but never actually on the mountains, and of 

 course in the south of England it occurs on heaths and plains, such 

 as in the New Forest and at Wey bridge, etc. Bold when recording 

 it for Northumberland and Durham, speaks of it as a littoral- species, 

 living on sand-banks 13 . 



M. lobicornis, like M. scabrinodis, is sometimes found in, and 

 near, the nests of other ants Rothney took a female and many 

 workers in nests of Formica sanguinea at Shirley 15 , Hallett records 

 its capture near a nest of F. rufa in Glamorgan 41 , and I found two 

 colonies of this ant, at Weybridge on July 22nd, 1911, both situated 

 beneath a nest of F. sanguinea 39 . 



According to Schenck the marriage flights take place from the 



