162 . THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
Locality .. Sibillini Mts. Florence. Futa Pass. Mainarde Palermo. 
Mts. 
Lightcoloured ¢ dull red. Bright red. Red. Red. Light red. 
scaling .. ? red. Bright red Red. Pale red. Pinkish. 
rarely pink- 
ish. 
$ blackish Indigo. Indigo. Indigo. Greenish in- 
indigo and digo. 
Darksealing- dull. 
¢ greenish Greenish in- Greenish in- Greenish in- Very pale in- 
| indigo. digo. digo. digo. digo. 
Extent of Very limited. Limited. Limited. Very exten- Limited. 
spots us sive. 
Apical spots Confluent. Often sepa- Confluent. Confluent. Confluent. 
(5 and 6).. rate. 
Confluence of Never occurs. Very rare. Never occurs. Frequent. Never occurs. 
' spotsland3 
along costa 
Statistical table of variations of upperside of forewing in different 
races :— 
Basal Median Apical Sibillini Florence. Mainarde Palermo. 
spots. spots. spots. Mts. Mts. 
é 2 g g sf z g g 
Isolated .. Separate. 6thobliter- 1 ‘ 
ated. 
isolated .. Separate. Separate. 9 1 
Isolated .. Confluent. Separate. 1 
Confluentalong Confluent. Separate. 1 
costa: with 
median ; Li 
Ditto .. .. Separate. Separate. 1 
Isolated .. Separate. Confluent. 54 5 15} U5} 1 Fal 7 13 10 
Isolated .. Confluent. Confluent. 1 1) 12 5 
Confluentalong Separate. Confluent. 10 10 
costa with 
median 
Ditto .. Confluent. Confluent. an 3} 18 17 2 
Isolated .. Confluent. Confluent 1 
with 
median. ie 
Confluentalong Confluent. Ditto. Bil 
costa with 
median .. 
Confluentalong Separate. Diffused. 1 
costa with 
apical 
Total of spec. examined 56 6 Ai. al 56 57 18 ° 12 
Ants from Mesopotamia and North-West Persia. (IVith plate I.) 
By W. C. CRAWLEY, B.A., F.E.S. 
The following paper contains a list of some thirty species, sub- 
species and varieties of /’ormicidac taken in Mesopotamia and North- 
west Persia by Mr. P. A. Buxton and Lieut. W. E. Eyans, principally 
during the years 1918 and 1919. Though the number of forms is 
small, it contains two new species, one new race, and four new 
varieties, in addition to a new species and a new variety described by 
Mr. H. Donisthorpe in 1918. I have included in the paper the record 
of three South African species taken by Mr. Buxton. 
It is interesting to note that among Lieut. Evans’ Mesopotamian 
