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the last) ; the ktiot is large and vertical ; ttl^ ocelli afe distinctly 

 visible. Formica^ in India, is, I believe, exclusively liisiited to the 

 Himalayan region. 



52. F.fusca{ljm.). 



Kashmir ^t tiittledale. 



Lahoul Major Sage. 



Mr. Littledale of Baroda sent me, with the specimens of this ant, the 

 following note :^'* May 4th, 1890. Took a nest of small black ants 

 "in Ruppell Nala, on the south side of Nanga Parbufc, at 12,500 

 " feet elevation, on a slope above the second glacier. The bigger 

 " ants (i. e.^ 5 major ) bit severely. Nanga Parbut is an immense 

 "mountain 26>629 feet high. These ants are common on it. The 

 " place where I got the ants was only cfeated of its winter snow 

 *' two days ago, and the ants, the smallet ones especially, were 

 " runniiig all over the stonesj and round the nest." This is the 

 species which in Europe is so commonly kept as slaves by its 

 cousin jR sanguinea. 



53. F. sanguinea (Latr.). 



54. F. fusco-g agates (Forel.). 



55. F. gagates (Latr.). 



56. F. rufiharhk (Fab.). • 



57. F. rufibarhis (Fab.), race clara: (Forel). 



58. F. trnndcola (Nyl.). 



These seven species (only a $ of truncicola) were taken by 

 Major Sage during a couple of months' holiday trip to Lahoul j 

 they are all European forms. 



Gen. 10. Myrmec CYSTUs (Wesmael). 

 The parallel frontal ridges, and compressed abdomen, distinguish 

 this genus from Formica. 



59. M. viaticus (Fab.). 



Benares; Allahabad; Agra;\ q a J Rothnev 

 Delhi; Lahore; Tirhoot J • • • j* 



Rai Bareilli, Oudh Dr. Simpson. 



Mr. Rothney notes : " Winged sexes in May from Tirhoot ; the 

 " nearest point to Calcutta that I have taken this ant is Assensole, 

 " where, when the train stops, it may be seen marching about the 



