180 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
A new species of Ant imported into England. 
By W. C. CRAWLEY, B.A., F.H.S. 
Cardiocondyla Britteni, sp. nov. Fig. 
8. Length 1.8 mm. 
THORAX AND PEpICEL oF CARDIOCONDYDA BRITTENI, SP. NOV. 
Colour red-brown, shining; scape, lst joint of funiculus, mandibles and legs, 
yellow; rest of funiculus, the epinotum, and gaster, dark brown; head, thorax, 
and pedicel, reddish, front of head darker. 
Pilosity. A few short adpressed hairs on body, principally on head and gaster ; 
legs and antennee without hairs. 
Structure. Head, excluding mandibles, } longer than broad, widest at eyes, 
which are placed at anterior third of sides of head ; sides feebly convex, occipital 
border slightly concave. Scapes reach the posterior + of head. Club much longer 
than rest of funiculus, the last joint alone equalling the following eight ; joints 2-8 
of funiculus thicker than long. 
Thorax somewhat stout; seen from above very slightly constricted at meso- 
epinotal suture, which is almost obsolete. In profile the dorsum presents an 
unbroken slightly convex line, with only the faintest suggestion of an impression 
at the junction of meso- and epinotum. 
Epinotum. First half of base of epinotum in a line with dorsum of thorax’ 
thence descending in a gentle curve to the spines, which are short and thick, 
slightly directed outwards, as long as broad at their bases. 
Pedicel. First node from above longer than wide, the sides almost parallel ; 
second node nearly twice as wide as first, + wider than long, widest in centre, the 
anterior border almost straight ; in profile the stalk of the petiole is not quite so 
long as the rest of the segment, and bears a minute tooth underneath in front ; 
the first node is higher than the second, and rounded. 
Gaster oval. 
Sculpture. Head covered with a fine puncturation which grows sparse and faint 
as the occiput is reached; the sculpture does not dull the surface. Mandibles 
smooth and shining. 
Thorax very sparsely and shallowly punctured, similarly to the occiput, the 
punctures almost disappearing towards the epinotum. 
~Epinotum. Sides finely granulate, the rest smooth and shining. 
Pedicel almost impunctate. 
Gaster entirely smooth and shining. 
A single % was taken by Mr. H. Britten among butter beans, at 
West Didsbury, on May 12th, 1919. It is highly probable that the 
ant was imported with the beans, in which case its place of origin 
would be tropical America, but beyond this there’is no clue. 
It is remarkable for its smooth and shining integument, not even 
the head being rendered opaque by the sculpture. The petiole is 
narrower than in emeryi, For., the postpetiole is wider in proportion to 
its length and the sides more angular, and the spines on the epinotum 
