W. L. Brown, Jr.
Mystrium in Australia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Psyche 59:25, 1952.

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Bellinger - Isotomidae
SALMON, J. T.
1948. Collembola from the Three Kings Islands with a description of Proisotomina, new genus. Rec. Aukland Inst. Mus., 3 : Bl-3OO. STACH, J,
1947. The apterygotan fauna of Poland in relation to the world fauna of this group of insects. Family Isotomidae. Acta Monogr. Mus. Hist. Nat., Polish Acad. Sci. Letters. MYSTRIUM IN AUSTRALIA (HY MENOPTERA : FQRMICIDAE) . On July 8, 1951, in the company of Mr. William Bateman, Forest Officer for the Northern Territory of Australia, I collected three workers of Mystrium camillae Emery at the Howard River, north of Howard Springs, Northern Territory. This locality, southeast of Darwin, bears vege- tation of the type known as "tall open monsoon forest," made up of the co-dominant trees Eucalyptus miniuta and E. tetradonta, with cycads and various tall grasses con- spicuous in the understories. The ants were found be- neath a dry log very close to a termite colony. They lay feigning death for at least thirty seconds before being put into alcohol.
The particular log from which the collection was made lay near, but not within, gallery forest of the type common along watercourses in the Darwin area.
In such forest are
found many species of Indomalayan trees growing close to the permanent moisture; these belong to such widespread genera as Termimlia, Pandunus, etc., and are intermingled with large specimens of the paperbark, Meldeuca leuco- dendron. (I am grateful to Mr. Bateman for the botanical information here greatly condensed.) This is the first time the genus Mystrium has been taken in the Australian region. M. camillae has been taken at several points in southeastern Asia, from Burma through the East Indies and the Philippines, and is the sole species found in this area. Several closely related species of the M. rnysticum group occur on Madagascar.-W~~~~~ L. BROWN, JR., Museum of Comparative Zoology> Harvard University.



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