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a pot containing an orchid from Hamburg, in June, 1904, in the 

 Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, where the species was again found 

 in August, 1904, and February, 1905 (Stewart}*. Hamm took it in 

 some numbers on November 30th, 1908, on fruit in the Oxford 

 market. 



Tapinoma minutum Mayr. 



Tapinoma minutum Mayr Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 12 703 (1862) 1 ; 

 Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 166 (1893) 2 . Tapinoma *melanocephalum Donis- 

 thorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 12 368 (191 1) 3 . Tapinoma minutum Emery 

 Gen. Ins. 137 41 (1912)*. 



Habitat : New South Wales. 



Workers in some numbers, Kew Gardens, 191 1. 3 



Technomyrmex albipes F. Smith. 



Formica (Tapinoma) albipes F. Smith Journ. Pro. Linn. Soc. Zool. 6 38 

 (1862) 1 . Technomyrmex albipes Dalla Torre Cat. Hym 7 166 (1893) 2 ; Bingham 

 Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym. 2 301 (1903) 3 : Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew (AS) 5 28 

 (1906) 4 ; Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 3 122 (1908) 5 : Trans. 

 Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 229 (1908) 6 ; Forel Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat. 

 44 21 (1908) 7 ; Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 6 251 Pf. [l]-4, 8 (1909) 8 : 

 12 368 (1911) 9 : Ent. Rec. 23 15 (1911) 10 ; Emery Gen. Ins. 137 43 (1912) 11 . 



Habitat : India, Malay Isles, New Guinea, etc. 



Bingham records this species from the palm house at Kew 4 ; 

 it is the commonest ant in the hot-houses in Kew Gardens, occurring 

 in abundance in the fern and palm houses, propagating-pits, and 

 other hot and some cooler houses. In 1908 I discovered an apterous 

 form of the male, which Forel has described 7 , and is sometimes 

 abundant in company with the winged form. In 1910 I found a 

 short-winged male which I have suggested may be a mermithaner 10 . 

 I never took the winged female, but on February llth, 1909, I cap- 

 tured a deflated female walking on a rockery in the palm house. 



I have received this ant from the Dublin Botanic Gardens 

 (Halbert), and the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens (Bagnall). 



Technomyrmex albipes F. Smith var. brunneipes Forel. 



Technomyrmex albipes v. brunneipes Forel Journ. Bombay NH. Soc. 

 9 466 (1895) 1 ; Bingham Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym. 2 302 (1903) 2 ; Godfrey 

 Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 17 101 (1907) 3 ; Emery Gen. Ins. 137 43 

 (1912) 4 . 



Habitat : India. 



Godfrey records this variety from the Botanic Gardens at Edin- 

 burgh ; according to Stewart it builds earthen chambers 3 . 



CAMPONOTINAE. 



Plagiolepis alluaudi Emery. 



Plagiolepis flavidula Er. Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 208 (1881) 1 ; Dalla 

 Torre Cat. Hym. 7 172 (1893) 2 . Plagiolepis alluaudi Emery Ann. Soc. Ent. 



