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pyramica, Hog"., is a Dorymyrmex^ of -which genus the -workers are only to 
be distinguished by the metanotum from those of Hypoclinea ; 9 varieties of 
Tsmdomyrma gracilis, F., are briefly described, including P. hicolor, Gu6r., 
dimidiata, Pog., and probably mexicana, Rog. 
The same author, Ann. Mus. Genov, ii. pp. 133-155, under the title 
Forynicidce Borneenses,'' describes species collected by Doria & Beccari in 
Sarawak, 64 in number. Some synonymy is given, and females or -workers 
of known species apparently described for the first time. 
Formica rufa. On its nest, habits, and parasites, cf. Buchanan White, 
Scot. Nat. i. pp. 216-222, 258-2(53. 
Formica ftisca : 2 J simultaneously in copula with one 5 . A. Muller, 
Ent. M. M. ix. p. 120. 
Buchanan White notes the habits of a black Formica at Capri, which 
* carried seeds of leguminose and other plants along a road to the nest. P. E. 
Soc. 1872, p. V. 
Ajjlianog aster : J. T. Moggridge, P. E. Soc. 1872, p. viii, having kept a 
colony under glass, confirms his previously expressed belief that the insects 
feed on stored grain. 
Camponotus puhcscens absorbs fluid from Tettigometra vhescens, Latr., as 
from an Aphis : Belpino, Bull. Ent. Ital. iv. p. 312 et seq. The author dis- 
cusses various questions suggested by this unexpected association of species, 
his chief deductions being that Formica was created before Aphis, Coccus, 
or Tettigometra', and that the latter is probably the stem-form of the 
Aphidid 
Tetramorium ccespitnm : Chennium hituhercidatum and Coitrotoma lucifuga 
{Col,'), Myrmccophila acervorum {Orth.), and one Hemipterous and two Hy- 
men opteroiis species, recorded by Javet as living in its nests : Bull. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. (6) ii. p. li. 
Mayr describes the following new genera and species : — 
Technomyrmex, Ann. Mus. Genov, ii. p. 147. Allied to Tapinoma : ab- 
domen, seen from above, with 6 segments, and with the anus apical, cleft 
and not ciliated. T. strenua, ibid., worker and $ , Sarawak and Singapore, 
Belonopelta, SB. Ak. Wien, Ixi. p. 394. Fonerides. Facies of Ponera 
contracta, but the clypeus has a sharp, straight, porrect spine in the middle. 
B. attemiata, 1. c. p. 396, fig. 11, a, h (worker only), New Granada. 
Rhopalothrix, ibid. p. 416. Very near Strmnigenys, but -wdth 7-jointed 
antennro, B. ciliatn, ibid, (worker). New Granada, B. (? g. n.) holani, ibid., 
note ( $ ), Surinam. 
Camponotus nitens, worker and $, p. S7S, fasciatus, worker, p. 379, novo- 
granadensis, worker, circidaris, fig. 2, worker, p. 380, angulatus, worker, 
conulus, fig. 3, worker, p. 382, sqdienoidalis, worker, p. 383, e.xcisus, fig. 4, 
worker, p. 884, trapezoidus, -worker, lindigi, fig. 5, worker and ^ , p. 386, 
cancsccns, worker, p. 386, hidens, worker, p. 387, hispinosus, worker, fig. 6, 
p. 388, New Granada, ibid . ; C. inconspmms, p. 136, Sarawak and Java, con- 
tractus and doria;, p. 137, Sarawak, all workers : Ann. Mus. Genov, ii. 
Prenolepis nodifera, SB. Ak. Wien, Ixi. p. 388, worker, New Granada. 
Brachymyrmex tristis, ibid. p. 389, worker. New Granada. 
Pohjrhachis heccarii, nigripilosa, p. \4\, prainosa, p, 142, workers, Sarawak 
(the 2nd also from Celebes) : Ann. Mus. Genov, ii. 
Jlypoclincn Idminatn, worker, fig. 8, p. 389, lamcllostt, 9 , p. 390, initiua 
