MYRMICINAE. 339 



Pheidole megacephala F. var. punctulata Mayr. 



Pheidole punctulata Mayr Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 16 899 (1866) 1 ; 

 Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 95 (1893) 2 . 



Habitat : South Africa ; Sierra Leone. 



In February, 1913, Purser sent me workers and soldiers of this 

 variety to name, which he had taken in the Cambridge Botanic 

 Gardens. He tells me they attend " scales " and " mealy bugs," 

 and build earthen chambers round the stems of small plants in 

 flower-pots, up to about an inch above the soil. In January, 1914, 

 Scott sent me more workers and males from the same locality ; 

 he says the ants have evidently been established for some time. 



Pheidole anastasii Emery var. cellarum Forel. 



Pheidole anastasii v. cellarum Forel Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat. 44 55 (1908) 1 ; 

 Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 3 122 (1908) 2 : Trans. Leicester Lit- 

 Phil. Soc. 12 231 (1908) 3 ; Bondroit Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 55 14 (1911) 4 . 



Habitat : Guatemala (?) ; Costa Rica. (?) 



Forel described this variety from specimens taken in hot-houses 

 at Kew, Zurich, and Dresden 1 . 



In February, 1908, workers and soldiers were very abundant in 

 the orchid house in Kew Gardens 2 , and again in 1913. In June, 

 1914, Cooper gave me specimens to name which he had captured 

 in a hot-house at Bournemouth. Beresford has taken it in 

 Dickson's nurseries, Newtownards, co. Dublin. 



Bondroit found it in abundance in the hot-houses in the Botanic 

 Gardens at Brussels 4 . 



Forel wrote to me (27.xi.13) as follows: "This form is so 

 typical in all hot-houses in Europe, that it has almost become a 

 race." 



Pheidole rhombinoda Mayr. 



Pheidole rhombinoda Mayr Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 28 678 (1878) 1 ; 

 Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 95 (1893) 2 ; Bingham Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym. 2 

 250 (1903) 3 . 



Habitat : India ; Ceylon. 



A deflated female, soldiers, and workers, Kew Gardens, Septem- 

 ber, 1912. 



Tetramorium guineense F. 



Formica guineensis Fabricius Ent. Syst. 2 357 (1793) 1 . Tetramorium 

 kollari Mayr Verb. Zool. Bot. Ver. Wien 5 425 (1855) 2 . Myrmica reticulata 

 F. Smith Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3 S) 1 33 (1862) 3 : Ent. Ann. 1871 60 4 . 

 Myrmica kollari F. Smith Ent. Ann. 1871 60 5 . Leptothorax reticulata Parfitt 

 Trans. Devon Assn. Sc-Lit. 12 516 (1880) 6 . Tetramorium guineense Saunders 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880 223 7 ; Er. Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 288 

 (1881) 8 ; Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 133 (1893) 9 . Tetramorium kollari Farren- 

 White Ants' Ways 242 (1895) 10 . Tetramorium guineense Saunders Hym-Acul. 

 34 (1896) 11 ; Thornley Nat. 1898 13 12 ; Vic. Hist. Notts 1 91 (1906) 13 ; 

 Godfrey Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 17 101 (1907) 14 ; Donisthorpe Trans. 



