166 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
Mr. William Evans, of Edinburgh. One species and one variety are 
new to science. 
Subfamily DORYLINAE Leach. 
Section HUDORYLINAE Forel. 
Tribe Doryunt Forel. 
Genus Dorylus Fabricius. 
Subgenus Typhlopone Westwood. 
D. fulvus West. 1 3 sent to me by Lieutenant Buxton, taken at 
Kumait, R. Tigris; 7 % 8 taken by Lieut. Evans under clods of 
earth in cultivated ground near Amara. 10. 11. 18. (No. 9). 
Subfamily MYRMICINAE Mayr. 
Section HUMYRMICINAE Emery. 
Tribe Puemoiini Emery. 
Genus Messor Forel. 
_M. barbarus structor Latr., var. orientalis Emery. 10 % % in moist 
ditches in garden, 1. xi. 17. (No. 1), and 1 dealated ? under clod in 
garden, near Amara, 12. ii. 18. (No. 10), Lieut. Evans. 
Genus Pheidole Westwood. 
Subgenus Pheidole Westwood, s. str. 
*  P.pallidula Nyl. 15 (2{ 2¢ and 8 3) under clod on cultivated land, 
Amara. 9. ii. 18. (No. 14), Lieut. Evans. 
Tribe Soxtenopsipini Forel. 
Subtribe Monomortint Emery. 
Genus Monomorium Mayr. 
Subgenus Xeromyrmex Emery. 
M. salomonis subopacum F. Sm., var. phoenicia Emery. About 70 
% 8 under clods of earth in cultivated ground near Amara, 10. i. 18. 
(No. 7), Lieut. Evans. 
Subgenus Paraholcomyrmex Emery. 
M. destructor Jerd., var. pallidus n. var. Differs from the typical 
form, in that the whole body is almost entirely of a pale, but clear 
bright, yellow. As all the specimens are coloured exactly alike, it is 
as well to give a name to this variety. 
About 90 3 8 under clods of earth in cultivated ground near 
Amara. 10. ii. 18. (No. 5), Lieut. Hvans. 
Subgenus Holcomyrmea Mayr. 
M. evanst n. sp. 
% Shining brownish black, with long scattered white hairs ; mandibles, cheeks, 
tarst, and articulations of the joints of the legs brown-yellow. 
Head rectangular, finely and sparingly punctured ; clypews smooth and shin- 
ing, furnished with two strong, sharp, projecting points; mandibles striate, ter- 
minal border armed with three strong teeth; antenne 12-jointed, club 3-jointed, 
shorter than the rest of the funiculus. Thora very finely and sparingly punctured ; 
sides of mesonotwm finely granulate; epinotum almost impunctate. Petiole almost 
impunctate, cylindrical and long anteriorly, the post-petiole broad and nodiform 
posteriorly ; gaster very finely punctured. Long, 4mm. 
¢ Head, thorax, petiole, and post-petiole almost black, mandibles, tarsi, articu- 
lations of the joints of the legs, and gaster, brown. 
Very much larger, more strongly punctured, and more hairy than 8. Petiole 
and post petiole broader in proportion than in 3. Wings ample, milky white, 
pterostigma, costa, and subcosta, brown. Long, 1i-12mm. 
3 Black, with long light brown hairs ; tarsi, articulations of the joints of legs, | 
and gaster, brown. 
