350 BRITISH ANTS. 



Camponotus (Colobopsis) truncatus Spin. 



Formica truncata Spinola Ins. Ligur. Spec. Nov. 2 244 (1808) 1 . Colobopsis 

 truncata Forel Denkschr. Schweiz. Ges. Naturw 26 44 215 387 (1874) 2 ; 

 Er. Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 160 (1881) 3 . Camponotus truncatus Dala 

 Torre Cat. Hym. 7 255 (1893) 4 . Camponotus (Colobopsis) truncatus Donis- 

 thorpe Bull. R. Bot. Gard. Kew 6 251 Pf. [l]-l-2 (1909) 5 ; Forel Rev. Suisse 

 Zool. 22 272 (1914). 



Habitat : South and Central Europe ; North Africa. 



In April, 1909, I found a number of soldiers and workers of this 

 species in virgin cork in company with Cremastog aster scutellaris, in 

 the fern house in Kew Gardens ; a beetle Formicomus pedestris 

 Ross., superficially very like the Colobopsis worker, occurred with 

 them 5 . Pool sent this ant to me to name, taken in cork in the insect 

 house in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, July, 1914. 



