A new form of Myrmecina.

Abstract

The genus Myrmecina Curtis 1829 is known from Europe, where the two species graminicola Latreille and sicula Ern. Andre occur. From the Indomalayan region a large number of species have been recorded (Cf. Emery, 1923, Gen. Ins.); Myrmecina seems to be absent from South America and Africa. In North America the genus is represented by two subspecies and one variety of the European M. graminicola, namely subspecies texana, subspecies americana and its variety brevispinosa. The new form described here resembles americana but is also close to the species type from the old world.