MYRMICINAE. 341 



Tetamorium mayitae Forel. 



Tetramorium mayitae Forel in Escherich Termiten. Ceylon 224 (191 1) 1 ; 

 Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 12 368 (191 1) 2 . 



Habitat: Ceylon. 



A number of workers on a plant from Java, Kew Gardens, 

 January, 191 P. 



Tetramorium lucayanum Wheeler var. sexdens Forel in lit. 



Beresford sent me specimens of a Tetramorium to name, which 

 he had taken in the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, co. Dublin. Forel 

 tells me it is a new variety of a species recently described by 

 Wheeler from the Bahamas. 



Wasmannia auro-punctata Rog. 



Tetramorium (?) auro-punctatum Roger Berlin Ent. Zeits. 7 182 (1863) 1 . 

 Tetramorium auro-punctatum Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 130 (1893) 2 . Was- 

 mannia auro-punctata Forel Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893 383 3 ; Donisthorpe 

 Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 3 122 (1908) 4 : Trans. Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 

 230 (1908) 5 : Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 6 251 Pf. [l]-7 (1909) 6 : 12 368 (1911) 7 



Habitat : West Indies. 



I first discovered this tiny little species in Kew Gardens in 1907 4 ; 

 it is one of the commonest ants at Kew, being abundant in the 

 propagating pits and some other houses. It nests in and under 

 flower-pots, in the leaf -sheaves of Piper obliquum v. eximium, etc., 

 and its males and females, which are very large in comparison with 

 the workers, occur in December and January in the nests, and 

 sometimes on the walls of the hot-houses. A small " wood-louse " 

 somewhat like PlatyartJirus hoffmanseggi, and the little spider 

 Diblemma donisthorpei Camb., which is superficially very like the 

 worker ants, are usually to be found in the nests. 



Triglyphothrix striatidens Emery. 



Tetramorium obesum razza striatidens Emery Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 27 

 501 (1889) 1 Triglyphothrix striatidens Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 136 (1893) 2 ; 

 Bingham Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym. 2 173 (1903) 3 . Triglyphothrix obesa st. 

 striatideus Bingham Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew (AS) 5 28 (1906) 4 . Trigly- 

 phothrix striatidens Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 3 122 (1908) 5 : 

 Trans. Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 231 (1908) ; 6 Forel Int. Ent. Cong. Bruxelles 

 19102 83 (1911) 7 . 



Habitat : India, Burma, Ceylon, Tunis, Sierra Leone, etc. 

 Bingham records this ant in the propagating pits 4 , and I have 

 found it in plenty in the fern and palm houses in Kew Gardens 5 . 



Strumigenys rogeri Emery. 



Strumigenys rogeri Emery Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. 22 68 (1890) 1 ; Dalla 

 Torre Cat. Hym. 7 147 (1893) 2 ; Strumigenys incisa Godfrey Notes R. Bot. 

 Gard. Edinburgh 17 102 (1907) 3 . Strumigenys rogeri Donisthorpe Bull. R. 



