214 BRITISH ANTS. 



Surrey : Kew (Bingham) 31 ; Shirley (Rothney) ; Wimbledon 

 Common (Morice) ; Chobham (Saunders) 11 ; Reigate Heath 

 (Frisby) 33 ; Box Hill, Weybridge 42 and Woking 43 (Donisthorpe). 



Essex, N. : St. Osyth (Harwood). 



Berks : Wellington College (Barnes). 



Oxford : Oddington (Crawley) 38 ; Bletchington (Donisthorpe)* 5 . 



Suffolk, E. : Lowestoft (Farr en-White) 22 ; Kirkley (M orice) ; 

 Blythburgh (M orley) ; Thorpe by Aldeburgh (Tuck) 25 ; Felix- 

 stowe (Morley) 25 ; Cove Common (Rothney). 



Suffolk, W. : Rougham and Mill Heath (Tuck) 25 . 



Norfolk, W. : Holme- juxta-Mare (Morley) ; Lang Mere (H. 

 Scott) ; Blakeney (S. 0. Taylor). 



Cambridgeshire : Cambridge (D. Sharp] ; Grantchester (H. 

 Scott) ; Cherryhinton (Fryer). 



Gloucester, W. : Stonehouse 19 and Stinchcombe Hill 22 (Farr en- 

 White) ; Durnham Downs (Smallcombe) ; Symonds Yat (Farren- 

 White)**. 



Glamorgan : Cwrt-yr-ala (Hallett) ; Rhosilli and Worm's Head 

 (T. W. Allen). 



Pembroke : Tenby (Donisthorpe)* 5 ; St. David's (T. W. Allen). 



Carnarvon : Con way Castle (Fan 'en-White)**. 



Denbigh : Deganwy (W. Gardner). 



Dublin : Lambay (Halbert) 3 *. 



Wicklow : Powerscourt (Dublin Mus. Coll.). 



Mayo, W. : Clare Island (Johnson) 39 . 



Donisthorpea aliena has generally been considered to be a race 

 or subspecies of D. nigra, but I am inclined to agree with Boridroit 

 that it is quite distinct, and should be regarded as a good species 41 . 



Although its habits are somewhat similar to those of D. nigra, 

 still it differs in many ways ; it is not nearly so widely distributed 

 nor so common, it lives a more subterranean life, and is of a much 

 more peaceable disposition. 



It prefers to dwell in hot exposed places, on sandy commons, and 

 heaths, and on the cliffs, etc., nesting in the ground under stones 

 and in banks, occurring but rarely in grass, and seldom constructing 

 mound nests. Smith says it has a way of tunnelling under the 

 ground, and of casting up little hillocks after the manner of the 

 mole 6 I have noticed this habit at Weybridge ; Farren- White 

 states it usually makes its burrows in sandy places, " with a raised 

 funnel-shaped gate," and he also found it occupying a small mound 

 at Bournemouth 23 and Bingham recorded two colonies in grass in 

 the Herbarium gardens at Kew 31 . 



Forel says it does not range as high as the sub -alpine regions in 

 Switzerland 9 , Wasmann gives its habitat as heaths in Holland 16 , 

 and Bondroit states it is only to be found in calcareous regions in 

 Belgium 41 . 



Parfitt records that he captured, in 1867, specimens of the worker 





