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Monomorium minutum Mayr, 



Monomorium minutum Mayr Verh. Zool. Bot. Ver Wien 5 453 (1855)* ? 

 Er Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 333 (1881) 2 ; Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 67 

 (1893) 3 . Monomorium minutum minutum Emery Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 

 1908 68 1 4 . Monomorium minutum Donisthorpe Trans. Leicester Lit-Phil. 

 Soc. 12 231 (1908) 5 : Bull. R, Bot. Gard. Kew 6 251 (1909) 6 ; Wheeler Journ. 

 New York Ent. Soc. 17 183 (1909) 7 . 



Habitat : Italy, Corfu, Syria, Algeria. 



Kew Gardens : On a plant from the Cambridge Botanic Gardens 

 in 1908 5 , and in fern pits, February, 1909 6 . 



Monomorium pharaonis L. 



Cosmopolitan species (see p. 96). 



Pheidologeton diversus Jerd. 



Ocodoma diversa Jerdon Madras Journ. Lit-Sc. 17 1851 109 (1853) 1 . 

 Pheidologeton diversus Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 73 (1893) 2 . Phidologiton 

 diversus Bingham Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym. 2 162 (19)3)'. Pheidologeton 

 diversus Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 12 368 (19 II) 4 . 



Habitat : India, Burma, extending into Malayan sub-region. 



A dealated female and small workers in fern pits (the large 

 queen was in the soil at the bottom of a flower-pot), Kew Gardens, 

 November, 1909 4 . 



Cremastogaster scutellaris 01. 



Formica scutellaris Olivier Enc. Meth Ins. 6 497 (1791) 1 . Cremastogaster 

 scutellaris Forel Denkschr. Schweiz. Ges. Naturw. 26 68 223 386 (1874) 2 ; 

 Er. Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 392 (1881 ) 3 ; Billups Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1884 XIV 4 ; Mason Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889 XXII 5 ; Dalla Torre Cat. 

 Hym. 7 85 (1893) 6 ; Saunders Hym-Acul. 42 (1896) 7 ; Bingham Bull. R. 

 Bot. Gard. Kew (AS) 5 28 (1906) 8 ; Vic. Hist. Cornwall 1 182 (1906) 9 ; 

 Vic. Hist. Devon 1 188 (1906) 10 ; Vic. Hist. Stafford 1 83 (1908) 11 ; Donis- 

 thorpe Trans. Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 231 (1908) 12 : Bull. R. Bot. Gard. 

 Kew 6 251 (1909) 13 . Crematogaster scutellaris scutellaris Emery Deutsch. 

 Ent. Zeitschr. 1912 653 14 . 



Habitat : Europe, south-west, Mediterranean, etc. ; North 

 Africa, Tunisie, etc. 



This ant has frequently been taken in England, being often 

 imported in virgin cork ; Billups captured workers running on the 

 pavement in Church Street, Greenwich, near the premises of a firm of 

 cork importers 4 ; it occurred in abundance in the fernery of Mr. 

 Baxter at Burton-on-Trent 5 ; Bingham records it amongst virgin 

 cork at Kew Gardens 8 ; it occurred in greenhouses at Penryn, 

 Cornwall 9 ; in imported apples on November 1st, 1892, in Devon- 

 shire 10 ; and in June of the same year E. A. Butler observed it in 

 some numbers on virgin cork in a shop in North London 12 . In 

 April, 1909, I found it in abundance, in company with Colobopsis 

 truncata Spin., in cork at Kew Gardens 13 ; and Pool sent me 





