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rated into three subfamilies — the Formicidcs (no Sting; a single node to 
tlio pedicle), Foncridcs (a sting ; a single node), Myrmecides (a sting ; two 
nodes). 
Gnamptogenys. Mayr, l.c. p. 9G3, tabulates the workers of the species of 
this genus. 
Myrmccia, Fab., is to be classed among the Fonendes, in consequence 
of Lowne’s discovery that its pupae are enclosed in cocoons. Mayr, 1. c. 
p. 0G8. 
Fogonomyrmex. Mayr, 1. c, p. 970, tabulates the workers of the species 
of this genus. 
Myrmica (^I'eiramorium) koUari (Mayr) is recorded from Britain by 
Smith (Ent. Ann. 1871, p. GO), avIio protests against Roger’s collocation of this 
species and of his own M. reticulata (from Panama) with the African F. 
guineensis, F. 
Tetramorium. Mayr, 1. c. p. 972, tabulates the workers of the species of 
this genus. T. tortuosum and auropunctatum, Rog., having only 11-jointed 
autenn.'e, must probably be referred to Fristomyrmex : Mayr, ibid. note. The 
author (pp. 973-970) discusses T, expf^pitum (E.), which .seems to attain its 
greatest amount of variatioii near the Meditorranenn, and none of the forms 
of which, except perhaps T. meridionale, Emery, seem to him worthy of a 
specilic rank. 
Cremastogaster. Mayr, 1. c. pp. 989-992, tabulates the workers of the Ame- 
rican species of this genus. 
Fobel (/. c. pp. 308-312) describes the J of Cremastogaster sordidida, 
Nyl., at great length. He notes intermediate variations in its characters, 
apparently sufTicient for .specific or even generic distinction, such as four or 
five joints to max. palpi (the first or fourth joint being sometimes semidivided), 
two or three joints to lab. palpi (sometimes one, semidivided), and con- 
vergent lines on the mesonoturn present or wanting. From others of thb 
same sex in its genus it appears to differ in its 11-jointed antennm, of 
which the third joint is incised, and in having the wing-nervures constantly 
atrophied. 
Fcitmi mexicana, Rog. ; Norton, 1. c. p. 7, figures major and minor workers 
of this species. 
Fseudomyimia bicolor, Gu^r. : Norton, I c. p. 8, figures a worker of this 
specie.s. 
Myrmica lyncea, Spin., is a Fseudomyrma : Mayr, /. c. p. 972. 
Townsend (Amer. Ent. & Rot, ii. p. 324, figs. 202 & 203) figures and 
records the habits of the “ Cutting-Ant ” of Texas, Atta ferens, Say.' 
Fheidole, Mayr (/. c. p. 977) tabulates the males of the Australian, and 
(pp. 979-982) the males and (pp. 982-984) the workers of the American spe- 
cies of this genus. The w'orker of F. oceanica, Mayr, is now referred by him 
to F. nmbonntn, one of his new species ; and at p. 979 he describes the true 
worker of F. oceanica, from the Friendly Isles. F, loivigata, Mayr, = pallid 
pnsilla, lleer : Mayr, 1. c. p. 981 , note. 
Solcnopsis. Mayr, I, c. p. 99G, tabulates the workers of the .species of this 
genus, except of S. capensis, Mayr, of which only $ is'known. S. (Diplo- 
rhojitrum) drewseni {]sh\.yr)=gcminata (F.), and probably has not its origin 
from Italy : IMayr, ibid. note. Atta \^3Iyrmica'] gayi (Spin.) most probably 
al.so= S. geminata (F.) : Mayr, 1. c. p. 972. 
