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Notes on ants and Aphides ; Buckton, Brit. Aph. iv. pp. 95-104. He 
is inclined to regard the latter simply as pets. 
Relations between ants and Paussidce discussed ; Peringuey, Tr. E. 
Soc. 1883, pp. 133-138 (c/. also P. E. Soc. 1883, pp. ii. & iii.). 
Ants destroying rosebuds ; Henderson, Gard. Chron. (2) xix. p. 253. 
On destroying ants in greenhouses ; Rowlett, tom. cit. p. 605. 
Ants entrapped by Lychnis viscosa ; Stone, P. L. S. 1880-82, p. 23. 
Captures of ants and ants’ nest-beetles ; E. Saunders, Ent. M. M. xx. 
pp. 18 & 19. 
List of 9 ants (2 now), chiefly collected in Madeira and the Canaries ; 
Camponotus sylvaticus , 01., and Aphcenogaster barbara , Linn., are specially 
noticed : Emery, Ann. Mus. Genov, xviii. pp. 448-452. 
Black ant visiting pitcher- plants in Borneo for the sake of entrapped 
insects ; Burbidge & Masters, P. L. S. 1875-80, p. liii. 
Notes on 12 ants of New Caledonia, 8 new; Emery, Bull. Ent. Ital. xv. 
pp. 145-151. 
Formica fusca , Linn., cinerea, cunicularia , and gagates , Latr., and 
probably glabra , White [vide infra], are synonymous; E. Saunders, Ent. 
M. M. xx. pp. 16 & 17. F . ligniperda, Latr., undermining a verandah ; 
Reed, Canad. Ent. xv. p. 140. F. rafa appearing in the winged state at 
the end of May ; Collett, Ent. M. M. xx. p. 42. 
Slenamma ivestiooodi. Two species have been confounded under this 
name. The $ , which is typical, and will stand as S. wcstwoodi, — Ase- 
morrhoptrum lippula , auct. ; and the $ and worker supposed to belong 
to S. wcstwoodi = Formicoxenus nitidulus, Nyl. E. Saunders, l. c. p. 16. 
Tetramorium ccespitum , Linn., var. semilccve from the Mediterranean 
Region described ; Andre, Spec. Hym. ii. p. 286. 
Aphcenogaster barbara , Linn., varr. nigra, semirufa, mcridionalis, minor , 
p. 355 [c/. also p. 368], rugosa and striaticeps , p. 356, described ; id. 1. c. 
Polyergus rufescens appears to be guided in its marauding expeditions 
by sight, and 'by the memory of locality ; Fabre, Nouv. Souv. Ent. 
pp. 140-152. 
Phidole javana, Mazo (?). Galleries in Myrmecodia noticed; Britten & 
Forbes, P. L. S. 1875-80, p. liii. 
Epitritus argiolus , Emery, recorded as new to Hungary ; Mayr, Term, 
fiizetek, vi. pp. 141, 142, 196, & 197. 
New genera and species : — 
Melophorus, Lubbock, J. L. S. xvii. p. 51. Type, M. bagoti, sp. n., 1. c. 
p. 52, pi. ii., Australia, lat. 21° S. (a honey-ant). 
Oxyopomyrmex, Andr6, Spec. Hym. ii. p. 378, pi. xxii. Allied to Aphceno- 
gaster; antennae ll-jointed, pronotum less rounded, second node of peticle 
nearly twice as large as first. Type, 0. ocnlatus , sp. n., 1. c. p. 380, Jaffa. 
Formica glabra, White, Ants and their Ways, p. 80, Bournemouth 
[_= gagates, Smith ( nee Latr.), Ent. Ann. 1866, pp. 127 & 253]. 
Camponotus few, Emery, Ann. Mus. Genov, xviii. p. 449 (fig. of thorax), 
Canaries ; C. gambeyi and camelus (fig.), id. Bull. Ent. Ital. xv. pp. 145 
& 146, New Caledonia. 
Leptomyrmex pallens, id. 1. c. p. 147, fig., New Caledonia. 
