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search for colonies of her hosts. Finally, as we have already 

 shown, fuliginosus females are not much larger than their workers, 

 and do not possess large gasters supplied with plenty of fat to 

 enable them to bring up their brood unaided, especially taking into 

 consideration their long-delayed fertility. Moreover, it has also 

 been proved by experiment that they are unable to do so! 



LITERATURE. 

 Crawley, W. C. 



'10 Workers of Lasius flai'us (f L. umbratus) among L. fuliginosus. Ent. 



Record, 22, 67 (1910). 

 Crawley, W. C. and Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'13 The Founding of Colonies by Queen Ants. Int. Ent. Cong. Oxford, 



1912, 2, 5-55 (1913). 

 Bonisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'97 Myrmecophilous Coleoptera in 1897. Ent. Record, 9. 246 (1897). 

 Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'10 On the Founding of Nests by Ants ; and a Few Notes on Myrmecophiles. 



Ent. Record, 22, 83-4 (1910). 

 Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'na Further Observations on Temporary Social Parasitism and Slavery 



in Ants. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1911, 180-81. 

 Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'nb Experiments on the Formation of Colonies by Lasius fnliginosns fe- 

 males. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1911, 664-72. 

 Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'13 On some Remarkable Associations between Ants of different Species. 



Rep. Lanes. -Ches. Ent. Soc., 36, 1912, 39-40 (1913). 

 Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'i5a British Ants, Their Life-History and Classification. Plymouth, Bren- 



don & Son, 196-99 (1915). 

 Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'i5b Marriage-flights of Donisthorpea Species on August 8, etc. Ent. 



Record, 27, 207 (1915). 

 Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'16 Myrmecophilous Notes for 1915. Ent. Record, 28, 2-3 (1916). 

 Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'17 Myrmecophilous Notes for 1916. Ent. Record, 29, 32-33 (1917). 

 Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'18 Myrmecophilous Notes for 1917. Ent. Record, 30, 13 (1918). 

 Donisthorpe, H. St. J. K. 



'19 Myrmecophilous Notes for 1918. Ent. Record, 31, 3-4 (1919). 

 Emery, C. 



'08 Remarques sur les observations de M. de Lannoy touchant 1'existence 

 de L. nii.rtns dans les fourmilieres de L. fuliginosus. Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg., 52, 182 (1908). 



