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Show 1896.] HYMENOPTERA OF CEYLON. 405 Formica timida, Jerd. (nee Forst.), Madr. Jour. Lit. & Sci. 1851, 122. Formica variegata, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. vi. 19, 68 $ . Formica ventralis, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. vi. 20, 70. Camponotus agnatus, Boger, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1863, 137, 8 § . Camponotus mitis, Wroughton, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1892), 31, 3; Forel, idem, 242 ; Emery, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1893, 252, 54 & 55. Trincomalee, Huldamulla (Yerbury coll.). Porel notes four varieties of C. mitis from Ceylon :- C. mitis, Smith (sens. str.). C. bacchus, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. vi. 21, 71. C. fuscithorax, Forel, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1892), 230; Emery, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1893, 252, 54. C. clulcis, Emery, Ann. d. Mus. Civ. di Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. vii. (1889), 511, 72. e. CAMPONOTUS THRASO, Forel. Camponotus thraso, Forel, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1892), 432. Trincomalee (Yerbury coll.). The following species, somewhat insufficiently described by Walker in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' 3rd series, vol. iv. (1859), pp. 370-375, and by Motschoulsky in the ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes,' Moscow, 1863, pp. 11-14, are not noticed by either Forel or Emery:- 11. FORMICA LATEBROSA, Walker, 1. c. p. 371. 12. „ PANGENS, „ „ 371. 13. „ DETORQUENS, „ „ 372. 14. „ DIFFIDENS, „ „ 372. 15. „ CONSULTANS, „ „ 373. 16. „ INDEFLEXA, „ „ 373. 17. „ PYRRHOCEPHALA, Motsch. 1. C. p. 11. 18. „ FUSCICAUDA, „ „ 12. 19. „ SUBPICBA, „ „ 12. Genus POLYRACHIS, Schuckard. 20. POLYRACHIS SCISSA (Eoger). Hemioptica scissa, Boger, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1862, 240, pi. 1. f. 12$ $ ; Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. xi. (1867), 318, 1; Emery, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1893, 255, 70. Polyrachis scissa, Forel, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist, Soc. viii. (1893), 27,1.<?. Hinaduma (Yerbury coll.). |