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 domestica . Female (length 13 / 4 line). Pale fulvous, eyes and ocelli black; a short elongate line on the prothorax, a similar one on each side; the scutellum, a stain on the pectus, and sides of the breast brown; a transverse dark brown fascia on the basal segment of the abdomen not quite reaching the apical margin, the remaining segments dark brown, their margins piceous. Male (length 1 line). Head black, thorax and abdomen nigro-piceous, the legs and antennae pale testaceous, the femora tinged with brown; the wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma very pale testaceous; the abdomen is heart-shaped, rather palest at the base: the metathorax and peduncle of the abdomen beneath without spines in both sexes.