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New Forest and Bournemouth districts 8 , and in his book he in- 

 cludes it in the British list, and not as introduced 11 . Bingham 

 records it from the tropical fern house at Kew, and says it is intro- 

 duced in England 12 . There is no reason to suppose it was ever a 

 native of this country. 



Prenolepis (Nylanderia) flavipes F. Smith. 



Tapinoma flavipes F. Smith Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874 404 1 . Prenolepis 

 flavipes Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 178 (1893) 2 ; Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. 

 Gard. Kew 3 122 (1908) 3 : Trans. Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 229 (1908) 4 . 

 Prenolepis (Nylanderia) flavipes Emery Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1910 132 5 . 



Habitat : Japan. 



A colony consisting of males, winged and dealated females, 

 workers, pupae, and larvae was found amongst lily bulbs from 

 Tokio in Kew Gardens 3 . 



Prenolepis (Nylanderia) steinheiliFor. var minutaFor. 



Prenolepis steinheili v. minuta Forel Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893 343 l ; 

 Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 6 251 (1909) 2 . 



Habitat : Antilles. 



Workers were taken amongst palms from British Guiana in 1909, 

 Kew Gardens 2 . 



Prenolepis (Nylanderia) longicornis Latr. 



Formica longicornis Latreille Hist. Nat. Fourm. 113 (1802) 1 . Tapinoma 

 gracilescens Fowler Ent. Mo. Mag. 21 276 (1885) 2 . Prenolepis longicornis 

 Er. Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 203 (1881) 3 ; Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 

 179 (1893) 4 . Tapinoma gracilescens Farren-White Ants' Ways 65 237 

 (1895) 5 . Prenolepis longicornis Saunders Hym-Acul. 26 (1896) 6 ; Bingham 

 Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew (AS) 5 28 (1906) 7 ; Frisby Ent. Mo. Mag. 43 

 159 (1907) 8 ; Assmuth Zeitschr. Wissens Insektenbiol. 3 301-309, 328-334, 

 357-368 (1907) 9 ; Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 3 122 (1908) 10 : 

 Trans. Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 228 (1908) 11 : Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 

 6 251 (1909) 12 . Prenolepis (Nylanderia) longicornis Emery Deutsch. Ent. 

 Zeitschr. 1910 129 13 . Prenolepis longicornis Forel Int. Ent. Cong. Bruxelles 

 1910283(1911) 14 ; Crawley and Donisthorpe Int. Ent. Cong. Oxford 1911 

 2 23 (1912) 15 . 



Habitat : Cosmopolitan species. 



Farren-White says this species was established in a rectory in 

 the heart of the City of London and occurred in large numbers in 

 1876 and 1878 ; he also records it from the Crystal Palace, the 

 lily house at Kew, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, Exeter, and in 

 a hot-house at Cheltenham 5 . Fowler observed this ant in some 

 numbers in a cottage in the centre of Lincoln, and the old woman 

 who inhabited it said they had been present for a great number of 

 years past, and she had never been able to get rid of the plague 2 . 

 Bingham records it in the propagating pits at Kew, and from Cam- 



