346 BRITISH ANTS. 



bridge, etc. 7 ; and Frisby found it to be common about several shops 

 at Linkfield Corner, Redhill, in 1906 8 . It is represented in the Dale 

 Collection by specimens from Little Stanmore ; in the Rothney 

 Collection from hot-houses at Tottenham ; and Scott sent it to 

 me to name from Warnham Court near Horsham. It is usually 

 abundant at Kew, where I have found it in the propagating pits 

 and other houses ; on one occasion I obtained a number of winged 

 females 11 , and a colony situated in a flower-pot consisted of thirteen 

 dealated females, a number of workers, larvae, etc. 15 . 



Prenolepis (Nylanderia) vividula Nyl. 



Formica vividula Nylander Acta. Soc. Sc. Fenn. 2 900 (1846) 1 . Prenolepis 

 vividula Er. Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 204 (1881) 2 ; Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 

 7 180 (1893 ) 3 ; Bignell Ent. Mo. Mag. 31 132 (1895) 4 ; Malloch Faun. Flor. 

 Geol. Clyde Area 219 (1901) 5 ; Butterfield Ent. Mo. Mag. 44 63 (1908) 6 ; 

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

 Phil. Soc. 12 229 (1908) 8 ; Prenolepis (Nylanderia} vividula Emery Deutsch. 

 Ent. Zeitschr. 1910 13 1 9 . Prenolepis vividula Forel Int. Ent. Cong. Bruxelles 

 19102 83 (1911) 10 . 



Habitat : Cosmopolitan species. 



On April 21st, 1895, Bignell captured two specimens of this ant 

 in his house at Plymouth, which had undoubtedly escaped from a 

 young palm, brought from London the day before 4 . Malloch 

 records it from hot-houses at Queen's Park, and in the Botanic 

 Gardens, Glasgow 5 ; and Butterfield as abundant in greenhouses 

 at Lister Park, Bradford, in 1907 6 . It is represented in the Dale 

 Collection by specimens taken at Llanelly (Richardson] ; Haliday 

 found it in hot-houses in Ireland 7 ; and Wooley sent me specimens 

 to name from a hot-house at Leicester Frith. 



I captured specimens at Kew in the palm house on March 23rd, 

 1896, and in 1908 it occurred in the " Hospital " (house No. 18), 

 where a nest, which was found under a flower-pot on October 28th, 

 1910, contained three males and one winged female. In March, 

 1914, Beck sent me specimens from Mogallon, near Newry, in 

 Ireland, where he had found them in Mr. Wakefield Richardson's 

 hot-house, attending scales (Lecanium hesperidum L.) on banana 

 leaves. Beresford has sent me specimens from Clonsilla, co. 

 Dublin, where, he tells me, a colony is established in a private 

 house. 



Prenolepis (Nylanderia) vividula Nyl. subsp. antillana For. 



Prenolepis guatemalensis race antillana Forel Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1893 340 1 . Prenolepis vividula subsp. antillana Donisthorpe Bull. R. Bot. 

 Gard. Kew 12 369 (1911) 2 : Ent. Rec. 23 15 (1911) 3 . 



Habitat : Antilles. 



Workers occurred for some years in the Palm-house in Kew 

 Gardens 2 3 . 



