hymenoptera. 17 



58. Formica timida. 



Formica timida, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. ^- Sc. (1851) 122; 

 Ann. 4' Mar/. Nat. Hist. 2iid ser. xiii. 105. 36. 



Hab. India (Malabar coast). 



59. Formica vagans. 



Formica vagans, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. 4" Sc. (1851) 124 $ ^ ; 

 Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. 107. 41. 



Hab. India (the Carnatic). 



60. Formica velox. 



Formica velox, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. S)- Sc. (1851)124 ; Ann. 

 4- Mag. Nat. Hist. 2ud ser. xiii. 106. 39. 



Hab. India (Malabar). 



61. Formica sMARAGDixA. PI. III. fig. 3. B.M. 



Formica smaragdina, Fabr. Spec. Ins. i. 488. 2 ? ; Mant. i. 307.3 ; 

 Ent. Syst. ii. 350. 3 ; Sijst. Piez. 397. 4. 



Christ. Hym. t. 60. 1. 



Gmel. Syst. Nat. Ins. ii. 2797. 20. 



Olio. Encycl. Meth. vi. 491. 5. 



Latr. Hist. Nut. Fourm. 176. pi. 3. f. 18. 



St. Farg. Hym. i. 218. 25. 



Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Nat. Hist. (1851) 121 <? ? § ; Ann. Sf 

 2Iag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. 104. 



Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 53. 

 Formica viridis, Kirby, Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 477 ? . 



Hab. India (Malabar) ; Ceylon; Sumatra; Celebes; Philippine 

 Islands. 



This ant is plentiful in Malabar and the wooded parts of India ; 

 it forms a nest of living leaves which it draws together without 

 detaching from the branch, and unites with a fine white web ; 

 sometimes the nest is a foot in diameter, but usually smaller. 

 These societies are very numerous. {Jerdon, Madras Journ.) 



The short palpi and somewliat diff'erent neuration of the wings 

 will probably render it necessary to remove this species from the 

 genus Formica, in which for the present we retain it. 



62. Formica ardens. 



Female. Length 8-9 lines. — Black ; subopake : the flagellum 

 and two or three of the apical joints of the tarsi pale rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; the clypeus, mandibles, coxse, femora and the abdomen 

 more or less obscure rufo-piceous ; the mandibles punctured and 



