List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. - Hymenoptera Aculeata. Author Smith, F. text 1851 British Museum London http://antbase.org/ants/publications/8200/8200.pdf book 8200 52FD1DF7-6D55-463C-AC66-E30E4AEC4EF3 Myrmica simillima . Myrmica simillima, Nyland . MSS. Worker (length 3 / 4 - 1 line). Head and thorax pale ferruginous, the legs and antennae more pallid, the coxae a little coloured, the eyes black; the abdomen is rufo- fuscous, pale towards the apex; the head is evenly longitudinally striate; the thorax above is without the usual transverse suture, but is a little compressed at the sides about the middle, and gradually slightly narrowed from the prothorax towards the nodes of the peduncle; the metathorax is truncate at the apex, and the spines are short, broad, and acute; the abdomen is furnished with a few scattered erect hairs. This species is very much like M. tuberum , being of the same size, and resembling some specimens closely in its colour; the Sculpture is however different. Hab. - Dorset.