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sets of two or three contiguous sensilla and two or three 
isolated sensilla; the whole posterior surface sparsely 
spinulose, the spinules minute and in subtransverse rows. 
Hypopharynx sparsely spinulose, the spinules minute and 
in short subtransverse rows. (Material studied: numerous 
larvae from Massachusetts.) 
DeGeer, 1778, PI. xliii: Fig. 7, larva in side view; Fig. 
8, head showing antennae (“yeux”), mandibles (“dents”) 
and maxillary palp and galea (“barbillons”) . Probably 
laevinodis. 
Donisthorpe, 19276, pp. 116 and 118: The caterpillars of 
Lycaena arion L. pass the winter in the nests of this ant 
and devour its larvae. 
Eidmann, 1943, p. 224: This species overwinters with 
larvae. 
Gosswald (1934/35, p. 125) reported this species as a 
host of mermithids. Presumably the nematode larvae were 
parasitic in the ant larvae. 
Myrmica sabuleti Meinert 
Chapman (1915/16) : See under scabrinodis. 
Starcke, 1948, p. 29 : The larva of this species “does not 
show any perceptible difference as to hairs with that of 
M. schencki”. Figs. 20, 22, 24, 33 and 34. 
Myrmica scabrinodis Nylander 
Chapman (1915/16) found that the larvae of M. scabri- 
nodis var. sabuleti were preyed upon by the caterpil- 
lars of Lycaena arion L. Plates XL, xli, xlvii, xlviii and 
XLix are photomicrographs which show fragments of ant 
larvae in the feces of the caterpillar. Donisthorpe (19276, 
pp. 116 and 118) and Wheeler (1928, p. 260 = 1926, p. 313), 
in discussing this relationship, refer to the ant as M. 
scabrinodis. 
Donisthorpe, 1915 (=1927) Fig. 43 on p. 31: Part of the 
larval head. This figure is inaccurate in that the labium 
and antennae are shown on the same surface of the head. 
Eidmann, 1943, p. 226 : Larvae overwinter in the nest. 
Gosswald (1934/35, p. 125) has listed this ant as a 
mermithid host. Presumably the nematode larvae were 
parasitic in the ant larvae. 
