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MUTILLLTLE, PORMICID^E. 347
before, and probably from Equatorial Africa, and not from Italy, as Jurine's
insect is labelled), is figured, t. xi. f. 8; the economy of M. eapitata, Luc, is
noted, p. 303; M. egregia, Sauss. nee Kl, is renamed aureorubra, p. 304;
M. capemis, Sauss, seems to be a minor form of continua (F.), p. 309.
Sichel & Radoszkovsky (/. c.) describe the following new species :—
MutUla Icevigata, p. 177, t. vii. f. 2, lsere; scabrofoveolata, p. 180, t. vii, f. 6,
W. Africa ; stribligata,^. 182, Greece, Algiers; disparimaculata, p. 183, t. viii.
f. 1, Senegal; ovata, p. 184, Caffraria (? =fiabellata, F, cf); simplifascia,
p. 192, t. vii. f. 3, 4, Gilolo; nigroaurea, p. 193, t. vii. f. 5, Africa (of which the
authors think their S.-American melanochrysa= cf) ; lucasi, p. 199, Algeria;
cordigera, p. 202, t. vii. f. 8, China; pondicherensis, p. 204, Pondicherry; bioculata,
p. 224, t. viii. f. 2, Senegal; argenteopicta, p. 226, t. viii. f. 3, Africa;
accedens, p. 227, Manilla; vicina, Amboyna, and subintrans, Ceylon, Timor,
p. 228 ; pectinata, Senegal, t. viii. f. 5, and dispilota, Africa, f. 6, p. 233; chrysocoecina,
p. 236, t. viii. f. 8, Persia (of which M. speciosa, Smith, from China,
is an imperfectly described var.) ; multispina, p. 237, t. viii. f. 9, Senegal; tvispilota,
p. 238, N'gami; ceylanensis, p. 247, Ceylon"; diselena, p. 248, t. viii.
f. 10, Senegal; aureomaculata, p, 255, t. ix. f. 1, Crimea (?=maura, var, in
which case M. melicerta would be its $); rubroaurea, p. 256, t. ix. f. 2,
Africa; perisii, p. 261, t. ix. f. 5, Corsica; calcariventris, p. 265, t. ix. f. 9,
Montpelier, Algiers; erythrothorax, p. 266 (no loc. given) ; persica, p. 269,
Persia; carinata, p. 272, t. x. f. 2, Corsica (possibly a cf var. of M. brutia or
M. maura) ; cypria, p. 273, Algeria, Cyprus (possibly a var. of M. rubricans,
Lep.); perfecta, p. 278, t. x. f. 7, S. Persia; melanochrysa, ibid, Rio Janeiro
; humeralis, p. 280, t. x. f. 9, Algeria (? differens, Lepel.) ; hispanica,
p. 295, t. ix. f. 4, Spain; saussurei, p. 299, Guinea; erschoffii (in error erchovii),
p. 308, Astrabad.
RADOSZKOVSKY (l> c. vii. Bull. pp. xix-xxi) supplements the above-mentioned
monograph by the observations that M. austriaca (maura cf ) has been
bred by Giraud from nests of Ammophila heydeni, and M. coronata by Sichel
from a colony of Larra anathema; that M. parvicollis, Costa, is the J of eapitata,
Luc, and is parasitic upon a Chrysis; and M. tabida, Luc, is certainly
the $ of hottentota (F.), and is parasitic upon Leptochilus mauritanieus,
—these two Mutillce, with nilotica, Kl, having been bred from Algerian
Helix maritima. The author notes that the form of the first abdominal segment
in the different species coincides with that of the other Hymenoptera
upon which they are parasitic.
Smicromyrme, g. n. Thorns, Opusc. Ent. p. 208. Basal nerve of ant. wings
reaching the postcostal considerably before the stigma; dorsal lines of
mesonotum entire ; apex of mandibles bidentate, in cf with short horn on
outer side. Sp. S. rufipes (Latr.).
FORMICIDjE.
Forel's apparatus for the preservation and examination of colonies of Formicidce
is described in Mitth. schw. ent. Ges. iii. p. 156.
Camponotus esuriens,' Smith: Norton (Comm. Ess. Inst. vi. p. 1) describes
its cf and $.
Camponotus ebeninus, Emery, = lateralis (Oliv.), var.: Emery, Bull. Ent.
Ital ii. p- 103.
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