56 HYMENOPTERA. 



Tapinoma erratica, Smith, Brit. Form. 111. 1. 



(erraticum) Mayr. Form. Austr. 101. 1 ; Ungar. Ameis. 14. 1. 



Hob. Britain ; France ; Germany ; Helsingfors ; Hungary ; Ma- 

 deira. 



2. TAPINOMA ^ENESCENS. 



Formica senescens, Nyl. Addit. Alt. Adno. Mon. Form. Bor. 37. 

 Hab. South Russia. 



3. TAPINOMA PYGM^A. B.M. 



Formica pygmaea, Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 183. 



St. Farg. Hym. i. 209. 10. 



Nyl. Form. Fr. et d'Alger. 72. 33. 

 Tapinoma pygmaea, Schenck, Beschr. Nass. Ameis. 68. 



(pygmaeum) Mayr. Form. Austr. 103; Ungar. Ameis. 15. 2. 



Hab. France; Germany; Hungary; Dalmatia; Italy; Madeira. 



4. TAPINOMA GRACILESCENS. B.M. 

 Formica gracilescens, Nyl. Form. Fr. et d'Alger. /3. 



Hab. Botanical Gardens at Kewand Paris; Madeira. (Coll. T. 

 V. Wollaston, Esq.) 



5. TAPINOMA NITENS. 



Tapinoma nitens, Mayr. Form. Austr. 105. 3 ; Ungar. Ameis, 

 15. 3. 



Hab. Austria; Dalmatia; Hungary. 



6. TAPINOMA VIVIDULA. 



Formica vividula, Nyl. Adno. Mon. Form. Bor. 900. 4. 

 Hab. Finland. 



7. TAPINOMA GLABRATA. B.M. 



Worker. Length 1^ line. Black, slightly shining : antennas, 

 mandibles and tarsi pale ferruginous ; scale of the abdomen 

 oblong and depressed; abdomen oblong-ovate. The clypeus 

 obscurely testaceous, the mandibles and flagellum rufo-testa- 

 ceous, the apex of the latter slightly fuscous ; the head, protho- 

 rax and coxae beneath, rufo- testaceous ; the thorax inclining from 

 the prothorax to the base of the metathorax, the latter convex 

 above, the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate, the scale 

 inclined forwards in a line with the oblique truncation of the me- 

 tathorax ; the insect entirely destitute of pubescence. 

 Hab. Malacca. 



