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MYRMICINAE 



SIMA, Roger 

 13. Sima rufonigra 



Eciton rufonigra, Jerdon y Madr. Journ. Lit. Sci. xvii (1851), p. 111. 



Sima rufonigra, Fore/, Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv (1903), pp. 708, 709, $ . 



Patani town. 



Biserat, Jalor. 



Ban Sai Kau, Nawngchilc. 



Gedong, South Pcrak. 



4 A very common species throughout the Malay Peninsula, preferring 

 sandy localities. It was particularly abundant about the houses in Patani at al 

 seasons, but was more common at Biserat in September and October than in June 

 and July. At this place we took several specimens of an Attid spider which 

 resembles it with wonderful detail, but we are not yet able to say whether the 

 spider is the same that mimics the species in India, and we never took it 

 actually together with the ant. The Malay name of the ant in the Patani 

 States is " semut sabong" and the term is more fixed than most which the 

 Malays apply to insects. On several occasions we showed the mimicking 

 spider to natives, who always called it by this name.' 



Common throughout nearly the whole of India, Assam, Burma, 

 Tenasserim, and Ceylon. The virulence of the sting is noted by Messrs. 

 Annandale and Robinson, but they do not regard it as quite so virulent as 

 that of Lobopeha distinguenda. 



14. Sima nigra 



Eciton nigra, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. and Sci. xvii (1851), p. 1 12, $ \ id. 



A. M. N. H. (2) xiii (1854), p. 53, 

 Tetraponera atrata, Smith, A. M. N. H. (2), ix (1852), p. 44. 

 Pseudomyrma carbonaria, Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. vii (1863), p. 20, $ . 

 Sima nigra, Forel, Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv (1903), p. 709, $ . 



Biserat, Jalor. 



Senggora town. December. 



Recorded also from Continental India, Ceylon, Burma, and Tenasserim. 



MYRMICARIA, Saunders 



15. Myrmicaria brunnea 



Myrmicaria brunnea, Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. iii (1841), p. 57, pi. v, 

 fig. 2, 



D 4/5/os 



