. Hymenoptera ... ter, this was tobe expected. Key to the Species. a. Metanotum wholly imavmed M. harharvs, var. instabilis, p. 278. b. Metanotum posteriorly distinctly bidentate or suh-bideutate 3A himalayanus, p. 279. 318. Messor bar bams, Linn. (Formica) Sijst. Nat. 12th ed. i(]7G7),p. instabilis, Smith, Cat. vi (1858), p. 1G3, ^ J ? MESSOK. 279 Aphasiiogaster barbara, Linn., var. punctata, Fore!, Jour. As. Iv (1886), p. 248, § . ^iote.—True 31. harharus does not, so far as I Icnow. occurwithin our limits: the form described below is var. instahiUs. Smith,identical, so f
. Hymenoptera ... ter, this was tobe expected. Key to the Species. a. Metanotum wholly imavmed M. harharvs, var. instabilis, p. 278. b. Metanotum posteriorly distinctly bidentate or suh-bideutate 3A himalayanus, p. 279. 318. Messor bar bams, Linn. (Formica) Sijst. Nat. 12th ed. i(]7G7),p. instabilis, Smith, Cat. vi (1858), p. 1G3, ^ J ? MESSOK. 279 Aphasiiogaster barbara, Linn., var. punctata, Fore!, Jour. As. Iv (1886), p. 248, § . ^iote.—True 31. harharus does not, so far as I Icnow. occurwithin our limits: the form described below is var. instahiUs. Smith,identical, so far as the specimens in the British Museum go. withspecimens of var. inmctata, named by Dr. Forel. ^ maj. Dark- shining red, the abdomen in some specimensblack, the scape of the antennce and the tarsi pale. Head insome specimens finely longitudinally striate, in the majoritysmooth, with a few obsolete striae and scattered punctures ; thoraxabove coarsely transversely, the sides obliquely striate; legs, pedicel. Fig. 83.—Mcssor harharus, var. incfabilis, ^ . (/. Head from front. and abdomen highly polished, smooth and shining ; the legs witha few widely scatteied punctures, nodes of the pedicel with somehalf obsolete transverse striae above. lilosity almost entirelywanting, Ieduced to a very few erect soft, not obtuse hairs on theunderside of the head and abdomen and on the thorax finely longitudinally striate. Metauotal spines orteeth entirely wanting. For the rest the characters of the genus. 5 min. Resembles the ^ maj., but is of coarse smaller; thehead invariably smooth, highly polished and shining, with no traceof striae and fewer punctuies than in the ^ maj. ; the sculi)ture ofthe thorax much more feeble ; metanotiim unarmed as in the ^ maj. 2 . Closely resembles the ^ maj., but is larger and darker,almost black, the head anteriorly subopaque, longitudinally striate,the posterior portion with the thorax and abdomen sparselypunctured, polished and shinin
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