SYNONYMY OF SOME GENERA OF ANTS. DAI 
frequently sharp and angular than in coridon (English). The spots 
small as in coridon, and the discal row similarly apart from the chey- 
rons. The general tone of colour and difference between upper- and 
underwings is almost the same in both, and much as in coridon. 
I should like to point out that in comparing coridon and aragonensis 
my examples came from widely separated localities for the two species 
(or forms), whereas Dr. Verity has obtained both from the same locali- 
ties; this gives him a great advantage in making the comparison, and 
makes his opinion by so much the more valuable. 
In whatever way further research may determine the point, the 
probability certainly stands at present rather in favour of these being 
two distinct species, and in any case Dr. Verity is to be congratulated 
on a very interesting and valuable research, if not quite determining 
the matter, at least adding most important facts towards that result. 
Dr. Verity appears to be rather unfortunate in his nomenclature. 
I do not refer to the question of trinomialism, which is a trifling one, 
whether you shall say Agriades coridon, meridionalis, or Agriades coridon 
var. meridionalis, is hardly worth disputing about, and as to the third 
name, it is surely better to say in Latin Ag. Cor. Mer., than half in 
Enelish, half in Latin, the double-brooded Riviera form of Agriades 
coridon. ‘The weakness appears to be that he calls his new species 
aragonensis, aud if it proves to be a separate species that is unquestion- 
ably its name, but this is very similar to avragonensis, and in fact was 
intended to be the same, but there is grave doubt as to whether arra- 
gonensis and meridionalis are the same species. Tutt’s name meridio- 
nalis refers to the whole Rivieran form, t.e., the whole of the double- 
brooded form, and would have been a better name to have chosen. 
Constanti, rezniceki (and now Dr. Verity has added reverdini for the 
aestival brood), are names for sub-races of meridionalis. This is not 
perhaps certain as to rezniceki, which may be assumed to be equal to 
meridionalis, though it has up to the present been accepted and used as 
applicable to one race of meridionalis in contradistinction to constantt, 
another race. I will, however, say no more on this, than that the 
terrible multiplication of varietal names we suffer from, is an evil that 
ought in some way to be checked. 
Synonymy of some Genera of Ants. 
By HORACE DONISTHORPH, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
1. Neomyrma, Forel, and Oreomyrma, Wheeler. 
Forel (fev. Suisse Zool., 22, 274 (1914)] described an ant from 
Lake Takoe under the name of Aphaenogaster calderont, and made it 
the type of a new subgenus, Neomyrma ; but as pointed out by Wheeler 
[Psyche, 22, 50 (1915)] it was not an Aphaenogaster but a Myrmica, 
and in fact the same species described by Wheeler under the name 
Myrmica bradleyt (Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc., 17, 77 (1909)] 
In 1914 Wheeler erected the subgenus Oreomyrma {| Psyche, 24, 118- 
122 (1914)], with type Myrmica rubida, Latr., which subgenus includes 
M. bradley. 
As Forel’s Neoniyrma was published in May 1914, and Wheeler’s 
