344 BRITISH ANTS. 



France 1894 71 3 . Plagiolepis flavidula. Saunders Hym-Acul. 26 (1896) 4 ; 

 Vic. Hist. Warwick 1 73 (1904) 5 ; Vic. Hist. Notts 1 91 (1906) 6 . Plagiolepis 

 alluaudi Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 3 122 (1908) 7 : Trans. Leicester 

 Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 229 (1908) 8 . 



Habitat : Seychelles. 



This little species has been found in the Botanic Gardens at 

 Kew 4 , Cambridge 4 , Edgbaston 5 , Dublin (Halbert) 8 , Edinburgh 

 (Bagnall) 8 , Oxford (Hamm), and Belfast (J . F. X. King] ; in green- 

 houses at Bramcote, Notts 6 , and Beccles, Suffolk (Crowfoot}. I 

 found it in abundance in the palm house at Kew in December, 

 1907 7 , and Hamm captured winged females at Oxford on April llth, 

 1903. 



Plagiolepis exigua Forel. 



Plagiolepis exigua Forel Journ. Bombay NH. Soc. 8 417 (1894) 1 ; Bingham 

 Faun. Brit. Ind. Hym. 2 323 (1903) 2 ; Godfrey Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 

 17 102 (1907) 3 . 



Habitat : India. 



Godfrey records this species as abundant in the hot-houses at 

 Edinburgh in 1904 ; nests were found in 1905, in the aroid house, 

 in hollow metal rods 3 . 



Brachymyrmex patagonicus Mayr. 



Brachymyrmex patagonicus Mayr Ann. Soc. Nat. Modena 3 164 (1868) 1 ; 

 Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 174 (1893) 2 ; Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. 

 Kew 6 251 (1909) 3 . 



Habitat : Central America. 



This species occurred in abundance in the Orchid house at Kew 

 in 1909 3 , and again in 1910. 



Prenolepis imparis Say subsp. nitens Mayr. 



Tapinoma nitens Mayr Ver Zool. Bot. Ver Wien 2 144 (1852) 1 . Tapinoma 

 polita F. Smith Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n.s.) 3 112 (1855) 2 : Cat. Brit. Foss. 

 Hym. 18 (1858) 3 : Ent. Mo. Mag. 2 29 (1865) 4 . Tapinoma nitens Saunders 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880 211 5 . Tapinoma polita Dale Ent. Mo. Mag. 17 236 

 (188 1) 6 . Prenolepis nitens Er. Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 204 (1881) 7 . 

 Tapinoma nitens Saunders Ent. Mo. Mag. 20 270 (1884) 8 . Prenolepis 

 imparis var. nitens Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 178 (1893) 9 . Tapinoma polita 

 Farren- White Ants' Ways 237 (1895) 10 . Prenolepis nitens Saunders Hym- 

 Acul. 25 (1896) 11 ; Bingham Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew (AS) 5 28 (1906) 12 ; 

 Donisthorpe Trans. Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 228 (1908) 13 . Prenolepis 

 imparis subsp. nitens Emery Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1910 128 14 . 



Habitat : Krain, Balkan Peninsula, in Asia Minor, and the east 

 coast of the Black Sea. 



Dale captured a single specimen of this ant at Bournemouth, 

 but F. Smith 2 and Saunders 5 give Wales as the habitat, as the former 

 read " Bar mouth " for Bournemouth 6 . 



It is curious that Saunders appeared to consider this insect to 

 be a British species ; in 1884 he says it should be looked for in the 



