102 GODFREY—NOTES ON THE ANIMAL LIFE 
directed our attention to an ant “‘milking one of the cows.” 
Colonel Bingham identifies this species as Technomyrmex albipes, 
Smith, var. drunneipes, Forel. 
Strumigenys incisa, Forel—QOn June Io, 1904, I detected in 
a propagating-frame a minute yellowish-red ant, furnished with 
a formidable mouth-apparatus. I sent it off at once to South 
Kensington, and, inferring from the nature of the reply received 
that special interest attached to the find, I instituted a careful 
search for additional specimens, which were also in their turns 
dispatched to South Kensington. The species was determined 
to be Strumigenys incisa, Forel., from the West Indies, and up 
to that time had been represented in the National Collection by 
a single female only, the type specimen. This species was 
again found in the summer of 1905 by Mr. Stewart. 
Ponera punctatissima, Roger—Mr. Stewart, on June 13, 
1904, found a colony of a fourth species in a propagating-frame, 
where the heat was about 85° Fahr. This proved to be 
Ponera punctatissima, Roger, a South European species. It has’ 
not turned up elsewhere in the hothouses. 
Tapinoma melanocephalum, Fabr.—The fifth species of ant 
was met with in the first instance under circumstances which 
graphically indicated the means of importation. On the morn- 
ing of June 14, 1904, Mr. Stewart was re-potting an orchid that 
had newly arrived from Hamburg; in addition to the plant there 
was in the pot a nest of ants, Zapznoma melanocephalum, Fabr., 
belonging to a species which, as Colonel Bingham, who identified 
it, informs us, has spread pretty nearly over both hemispheres. 
That this ant is firmly established in the hothouses was proved 
by the finding of colonies later on. Mr. Stewart handed me 
further supplies of this species on August 3, 1904, and on 
February 28, 1905. - 
Plagiolepis exigua, Forel—The sixth species is so abundant 
in parts of the hothouses that, but for its exceedingly minute 
size, it could not have remained so long undetected. I first 
noticed it on August 3, 1904, on the woodwork of the hotter 
portion of the Palm-house, whete it ran so rapidly as almost to_ 
