hymenoptera. 115 



2. Mykmica ruginodis. B.M. 



Mvrmica ruginodis, Xyl. Adiio. Mon. Form. Bor. Eur. 929. 2; 

 'Addit. Aclno. Mon. Form. Bor. Eur. 1052. 19; Form. Fr. et 

 d'Alge'r. 79. 



Foerst. Hym. Stud. Form. (56. 36. 

 Schenck. Bescbr. Nans. Ameis. 77- 

 Smith. Brit. Form. 116. 2. 

 Mnyr. Forjii. Austr. \'3ii. 4. 

 Myrniica vaguns, Curtis, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 213. 3. 



Hub. Britain ; France ; Germany ; Hungary ; Finland. 



This and the two following s])ccies were formerly included 

 under the name of M. rubra. Dr. Nylander says the male is 

 identical with the typical specimen of M. vagans in the Museum 

 at Kiel, and that the female is the M. rubra, the male also stand- 

 ing as the male of M. ccespitum : this confusion is entirely 

 avoided bv adopting the names proposed l)y Nylander for the 

 three closely allied, but very distinct species. This species would 

 therefore, according to the laws of pi-iority, be the M. rubra of 

 Fabricius ; but we cannot be certain tliat it would be so of Lin- 

 naeus, who woidd undoubtedly have included this and two or 

 three of the following species under that name. 



3. MyRMICA SCABRINODIS. PI. VIII. figs. 6,7, 9, 10, 11. B.M. 



Myrmica scabrinodis, 'Nyl. Adno. ]\Ion. Form. Bor. Eur. 930. 3; 

 Addit. Adno. Mon. Form. Bor. Eur. 1052. 20; Form. Fr. et 

 d' Alger. 81. 6. 



Foerst. Hym. Stud. Form. 67. 37. 

 Schenck, Beschr. Nass. Ameis. p. 78. 

 Smith, Brit. Form. 115. 1. 



Mayr. Form. Austr. 138. 6; Ungar. Ameis. 18. 2. 

 Myrmica ca^spitum, Zett. Ins. Lapp. 450. 1 . 

 Myrmica rubra, Curtis, Trans. Linn. Soc. x.xi. 213. 1. 



Hab. Britain; France; Germany; Hungary; Russia; Fudand. 



4. Myrmica rugulosa. B.M. 



Mvrmica rugulosa, Nyl. Addit. alt. Adno. Mon. Form. Bor. Eur. 

 "32; Form. Fr. et d' Alger. 80. 5. 



Mayr. Form. Austr. 133. .3. 

 Myrmica claudestina, Foerst. Hym. Stud. Form. 63. 34. 



Schenck, Beschr. Nass. Ameis. 84. 



Hab. Britain; France; Geraianv ; S\<'itzerland ; Finland. 



