OUR ANTS. 199 



200. Gr,tontewda {M.2ijr). 



Poona Districts. . . (and a varietj^) (4-4-91, $ , and 29-3-90, $ ) 



Coonoor, Madras R. W. Daly (2 varieties). 



Sunderbuns ......,..« Robert Ellis (variety). 



Calcutta G. A. J. Rothney (type). 



Orissa Jas. Taylor. 



Ceylon Major Yerbury. 



This is the commonest terrestrial species of the Dekhan ; it may 

 he found wandering everywhere, though it has a strong tendency 

 to follow its own made road within a considerable distance from the 

 nest. I do not think these roads are kept long in use, for they 

 are but indistinctly marked. 



201. Or. coriaria (Mayr). 



Burma Major C. T. Bingham. 



202. Or. flam (Forel), 



Kanara ,...E. H. Aitken, 



203. Cr. perelegans (Forel MS.). 

 Poena Districts. 



A very large and handsome species ; it is fairly common east of 

 Poona, but is essentially a jungle ant. It uses a road which, however, 

 is not well marked, nor necessarily on the ground surface. In one 

 Maratha Fort I traced a column of these ants, sometimes on the walls, 

 sometimes on the ground, for fully 100 yards ; all the ants followed 

 practically the same road, but the column was not continuous. 

 I have recorded already the looting of Rolcomyrmex by this species. 



204. Cr, wroughtoni (Forel MS.). 



Poona Districts (11-3-90,?). 



I have found it only once, on the Ghats ; the nest was in a hollow 

 mango tree. 



205. Cr. ebeninus (Forel MS.). 



Poona Districts (24-4-91,^,9). 



Orissa Jas. Taylor (variety). 



In the Dekhan C. ebeninus occurs only on the Gh^ts, but, unless I 

 am mistaken, I remember it as a fairly common species in the Thana 

 jungles. Its nest is like that of C. ro^e;^^o/m without the 'flounces,' 

 or having them in a very rudimentary form. Mr. Taylor records. 



