2d MYRMICA LIPPULA. 



Southend, at Shoeburynesa, also at Deal and Dover, and will 

 probabl} be found along the whole line of the eastern and 

 southern coasts. 



7. Myrmica (Tetramorium) lippula. 

 Poemina.— Rufo-pallida, sparse pilosula; capite et thorace supra 

 Longitudinaliter striatulis; alis totis albo-hyalinis ; spinis me- 

 tathoracis parvis, dentiformibus; nodis sublaevibus, primoelon- 

 gato, secundo glohoso. 

 Operaria. — Ferruginea ; abdomine dorso in medio fusco; capite 

 et thorace reticularis ; oculis minutissimis ; metathorace spinis 

 duabus minutis acutis ; nodo prirao elongate 

 Myrmica graminicola, Lair. Hist. Nat. Fourm. p. 256 ? (nee 

 worker). 

 Smith, Brit. Form. p. 126. 9. 

 Curtis, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 216. 11. 

 Myrmica lippula, Nyl. Addit. Alt. Form. Bor. Eur. 41. 8 ; Form. 



Fr. et d' Alger, p. 88. 15. 

 Myrmica Minkii, Foerst. Uym. Stud. Form. p. 63. 33. 

 Schenck, Beschr. Nass. Ameis. p. 142. 

 Mayr, Form. Austr. p. 143. 



Female. Length 2-2J lines. — Pale ferruginous; the head and 

 thorax reticulated, the reticulation inclining to striation on the 

 head ; the eyes small and black ; the metathorax transversely 

 striated at the base, the spines short and acute ; the wings hya- 

 line, the nervures and stigma pale testaceous ; the first node of 

 the petiole elongate, or petiolated, the second smooth and glo- 

 bose ; the abdomen oblong-ovate. 



Worker. Length l£ line. — Rufo-fuscous, sometimes nigvo- 

 fuscous ; the head anteriorly, the mandibles, antenna?, legs, and 

 abdomen beneath, pale rufo-testaceous, sculptured like the 

 female ; the spines on the metathorax small and acute ; the 

 first node petiolated, as in the other sex ; abdomen ovate, 

 smooth, shining and pale at the base and apex ; the eyes very 

 small. 



I have not seen the male of this species. Latreille describes 

 it as being " dark fuscous, or black, shining and pubescent ; the 

 rlagellum ferruginous, the scape fuscous ; the metathorax with 

 two little acute tubercles ; the tarsi pale, the wings very dark." 



I think it quite possible that the worker described by Latreille 

 is a variety of M. acervorum — in this I agree with Dr. Nylander ; 

 and I am satisfied that the female is that of the present species ; 

 but as two, if not three, distinct species are described under the 



