340 BRITISH ANTS. 



Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 230 (1908) 15 ; Emery Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 

 1909 695 16 ; Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 12 368 (1911) 17 : Ent. 

 Rec. 23 14 (1911) 18 ; Forel Int. Ent. Cong. Bruxelles 1910 2 83 (1911) 19 . 



Habitat : Cosmopolitan species. 



F. Smith records this species, in 1862, from the Botanic Gardens 

 at Exeter (Parfitt)*, and subsequently from Sheerness taken in 1866 

 (Brewer) 5 . Saunders gives Exeter and Greenwich as localities 7 ; 

 and Farren-White found it in great numbers in a hot-house at 

 Stroud, and at Easting near Stonehouse, and in 1894 he captured 

 it in the Botanic Gardens in Regent's Park 10 . Pegler took a worker 

 at Retford, Notts 12 ; and Godfrey describes it as the most abun- 

 dant species in the Botanic Gardens at Edinburgh, winged specimens 

 occurring from June to September 14 . Crawley observed this species 

 in a conservatory at West Leake, Notts, in 1909, where he says it 

 had been abundant for some years 18 . In December, 1910, it 

 occurred in some numbers in a small hot-house in Kew Gardens, 

 deflated females walking about freely among the workers 17 . In 

 1911 E. A. Butler captured specimens in a hot-house at Harrow. 

 J. F. X. King took specimens in the Botanic Gardens at Belfast, 

 and Halbert sent me specimens to examine from the Buckle Collec- 

 tion, also from Belfast these were standing under the name 

 Myrmica lippula. In the British Museum Collection specimens 

 taken by R. S. Draper in hot-houses in Sunderland were doing 

 duty for Myrmica lobicornis. 



Tetramorium simillimum F. Smith. 



Myrmica simillima F. Smith List. Brit. Anim. Brit. Mus. Acul. 118 (1851 ) x ; 

 Curtis Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 21 216 (1854) 2 ; F. Smith Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. (n.s.) 3 129 (1855) 3 : Ent. Ann. 1855 98 4 . Myrmica (Leptothorax) 

 simillima F. Smith Cat. Brit. Foss. Hym. 31 (1858) 5 . Leptothorax simillima 

 Parfitt Trans. Devon Assn. So-Lit. 12 517 (1880) 6 . Tetramorium simillimum 

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

 2 287 (1881) 8 ; Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 134 (1893) 9 . Leptothorax simillimus 

 Farren-White Ants' Ways 245 (1895) 10 . Tetramorium simillimum Saunders 

 Hym-Acul. 34 (1896) 11 ; Vic. Hist. Devon 1 188 (1906) 12 ; Donisthorpe Bull. 

 R. Bot. Gard. Kew 3 122 (1908) 13 : Trans. Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 230 

 (1908) 14 ; Emery Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1909 696 15 ; Forel Int. Ent. Cong. 

 Bruxelles 1910 2 83 (1911) 16 . 



Habitat : Cosmopolitan species. 



F. Smith recorded that this ant was taken by Dale near his 

 house at Glanvilles Wootton in Dorsetshire 3 , but subsequently that 

 it had occurred in a greenhouse 5 . Parfitt observed it in large 

 numbers, in June, 1876, in a hot-house at Exeter 6 ; Saunders 

 recorded it from Kew in 1880 7 ; and Farren-White discovered it 

 in a hot-house at Cheltenham 10 . In January and February, 1908, 

 I found it present in some numbers in the Palm House at Kew 

 Gardens 13 ; a few dealated females were taken walking amongst 

 the workers. 



