74 THE ENTOMOLOGIST 'S RECORD. 
Space will not allow us to deal at much greater length with the 
rest of the work, and before concluding only a few points here and 
there can be mentioned. 
Bondroit uses the name Formicina, Shuckard, for the genus Lasius, 
F. (nec Jurine), and drops the subgenera—Dendrolasius, Ruasky, 
Chthonolasius, Ruzsky, and Donisthorpea, Mor. and Durnt., altogether. 
We will not say much about this, since Emery, Forel, and Wheeler vary 
from each other in names they use for this enus and the subgenera ; 
only that it seems to us when Wheeler in 1911 designated the type 
of Formicina as Formica rufa, L., it precluded any further use of the 
name Mormicina. 
Bondroit’s new species and varieties of ‘‘ Formicina”’ appear to us 
to be chiefly founded on ants from individual colonies of flava, and 
inetrmediate forms between wmbrata and mixta which come under 
Forel’s mixto-wnbrata; his microgyna seems to.be nothing else than 
bicornis, Forst. The differences given between Cataglyphis cursor, 
Fonsc., and C. tibialis, Bond, do not appear to us to be specific. 
In the table on Formica—picea and rufa are said to be alpine or 
subalpine species; the former which is only found in sphagnum bogs, 
is not alpine at all, and the latter is widely distributed. Under the 
descriptions of each species, ’. picea is said to nest in turf-pits 
(“tourbiéres”’), and damp meadows; not exactly alpine localities. 
September is given for the appearance of the sexes; these however are 
found in July and August, and Bonner, who found the species abundant 
in sphagnum bogs at Lyngbymoor, distinctly states the sexes were 
never to be found in September. Bondroit named two deilated 
females taken by us in a large colony of F. fusca under stones in a 
field near Tenby as F. picea. This, and the above statements, appear 
to suggest that he does not know the species. 
The nests of F’. glebaria are said to be subterranean and scarcely 
visible from outside. As a matter of fact glebaria nests frequently 
consist of raised earth mounds, covered with low debris of cut grass, 
gorse, pebbles, or anything handy, which are very conspicuous. The 
sexes often occur before the middle of July, and not at the end of the 
sumer. 
No localities are given for I’. rufibarbis and no mention is made of 
its interesting and rather distinct habits. 
The fusca group has always presented considerable difficulties, and 
this is only enhanced by the creation of four new species (and one new 
variety) which do not appear to us to possess specific characters ; 
moreover /’. fusca var. fusco-rujfibarbis, Forel, which is called ** Formica 
fusco-rufibarbis,” is retained, although ignored by both Emery in his 
Palearctic species, and Wheeler in his revision of Formica. It has 
also been shown to be a synonym of F’. fusca var. rubescens, Forel. 
i. glebaria and I’. rubescens are treated as species and are said to 
possess one or two hairs on the pronotum. We have examined 
hundreds of specimens of these two varieties of I’. fusca, and we have 
never found them to possess hairs on the pronotum. ‘ormica 
piuiphila, Schenck, and F’. polyctena, Férst, which have long been sunk 
as synonyms of F’. rufa, L., are reinstated. (When we first discovered 
H. rufa var. alpina, Santschi, in Scotland, and sent specimens to 
Bondroit, he returned them as /’. piniphila, Schenck!) They are at 
most forms of FP. rufa var. rufo-pratensis, Forel, which is left out, and 
