228 Annals of the South African Museum. 



antennae, legs, mandibles and disc of pronotum and mesonotum 

 reddish to brownish yellow. The club of the antenna dark brown." 

 Khakhea, Kalahari. (Schultze.) Nest in sand. 



Var. NOTTTLA, Forel. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 54, p. 441, $ , $ , 1910. - 



^ . 2 - 2 mm. Dark reddish brown, pro-mesonotum lighter, more 

 rusty red, legs paler, especially the tarsi, mandibles yellowish rusty 

 red. Eyes rather smaller and placed further back than in the type* 

 species. Head slightly narrower. Epinotum and mesopleura strongly 

 reticulate-punctate. Second joint of flagellum a little longer than 

 wide. 



"£. 35 mm. Head much wider than long; the posterior margin 

 nearly straight, a little narrower than the thorax and, like it, dull. 

 Abdomen fairly shining. Wings hyaline, nervures pale. Black ; 

 antennae brown ; tarsi, tibiae, articulations and margins of the 

 mandibles yellow. Hairs on head and thorax fairly abundant and 

 erect. Tibiae and scapes with adpressed pubescence." 



Bulawayo ; Springvale, S. Bhodesia. (S.A.M., R.M., G-.A. colls.) 



M. Pharaonis, Linn. 



Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, i, p. 580, 1758. Say (Myrmica molesta), Boston 

 Journ. NH., p. 626, $ , 1838. Smith (Myrmica domestica), 

 List. Brit. Anim. B.M., vi, p. 119, <£, 1851. Smith (Myrmica 

 domestica), Trans. Ent. Soc. London (2), iii, p. 130, $ , $ , £ , 



1855. 



$ . 2"5-3 mm. Reddish yellow, the apical half of the abdomen 

 and sometimes the sides of the whole of the 1st segment brownish. A 

 few scattered pilose hairs on the thorax and abdomen. A microscopic 

 pubescence on the legs and antennae. Head, thorax and nodes closely 

 and minutely granulate, abdomen and legs smooth and shining. 

 Head, thorax and nodes dull. Head ovate, excluding the mandibles, 

 one-quarter longer than wide, the sides strongly, the posterior margin 

 feebly convex. Eyes situated in front of the middle of the head. 

 The scape almost reaches the posterior margin. Clypeal carinae fairly 

 distinct. Mandibles faintly striate. Pro-mesonotum convex, rounded 

 in front and at the sides, narrowed posteriorly. The thorax constricted 

 at the meso-epinotal suture, which is deep. Dorsum of epinotum 

 longer than wide, about three-fifths as long as the pro-mesonotum, 

 the declivity almost vertical, shorter than the dorsum. The pro- 

 mesonotum and epinotum, seen from the side, are distinctly convex. 



