276 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
Wheeler [Science, n.s. 48, 316-18 (1916)], in a very generous and ap- 
preciative review of my book, British Ants, stated that he was not 
prepared to accept Jurine’s paper, and he also expressed the opinion 
that neither Forel nor Emery would do so. In this, however, he was 
mistaken, as both Forel and Emery have accepted the Erlangen List. 
Forel [Rev. Suisse Zool., 24, 460 (1916)] substitutes Mayr’s Acantho- 
myops for the genus Lasius, F'., but he incorrectly treats the sub-genus 
Donisthorpea, Mor. and Drnt., with type nigra, L., as a synonym of 
Chthonolasius, Ruzsky, with type flavus, F.! He also states that he is 
prepared to accept the name Hormicina instead of Lasius, if this will 
put an end to any furcher changes of names. 
Emery (Acad. Sci. Ist. Bologna, 1916, 61) on the other hand selects 
Formicina, Shuckard (1840), as a substitute for Lasius, F.; but the use 
of this name is invalid, as Wheeler [Ann. New York Acad. Sct., 21,164 
(1911)] fixed Formica rufa as the type of Formicina, and sunk it as a 
synonym of Formica, L. Emery also gives the dates of Ruzsky’s sub- 
genera as 1908, whereas they were published in 1912. 
If the validity of Jurine’s paper be accepted the synonymy is as 
follows :— 
ACANTHOMYOPS, Mayr. 
= § LASIUS (nec Jurine) F. (1804); = * FORMICINA (Shuck., 
p., 1840), Forel and Emery (1916) — nec Wheeler (1911); = Acan- 
tHomyops Mayr (1862); = Dernprovastus Ruzsky (i912); = 
CutHononasius, Ruzsky (1912); = Donistaorpza Mor. and Drnt. 
(1915); = * CHTHONOLASIUS (nec Ruzsky), Forel (1916). 
Type 1: Formica clavigera, Roger (claviger, Mayr; Mayr 
1862; Wheeler, 1911). 
AcantHomyors, Mayr, Verh. Zool-Bot. Ges. Wien, 12, 699- 
700 (1862); Wheeler, Ann. N.Y. Ac. Se., 24, 157 (1911); Forel, Rev. 
Suisse Zool., 24, 460 (1916). 
Type 2: Formica tuliginosa, Ltr. (Ruzsky, 1912). 
Denprotasivs, Ruzsky, Kasani Zap. Veterin. Inst., 29, 629- 
38, tf. 2 (1912) ; Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool., 24, 460 (1916). 
Type 3: Formica flava, L. (Ruzsky, 1912). 
Curnonotasius, Ruzsky, Kasani Zap. Veterin. Inst., 29, 629- 
38, tf. 8 (1912). * FORMICINA, Shuck. (p.), Lardner’s Cab. Cyel., 
10 (Hist. Nat.-Arr. Ins.), 172 (1840); Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool., 24, 
460 (1916); Emery, Acad. Sci. Ist. Bologna, 1916, 61. 
[nee FORMICINA, Shuck., Lardner’s Cab. Cycl., 10 (Hist. Nat.- 
Arr. Ins.), 172 (1840); Wheeler, Science, 38, 859, 860 (2, vi., 1911) ; 
Ann. N.Y. Ac. Se., 21, 164 (17, xi., 1911)—Type: rufa, L. (FOR- 
MICA, L.)}. 
|nec * CHTHONOLASIUS, (Ruzsky) Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool., 24, 
460 (1916)—Type: nigra, L. (DONISTHORPEA, Mor. and Drnt.)]. 
Type 4: Formica nigra, L. (Mor. and Drnt., 1915). 
