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tion. I intended to designate thereby colonies in which, at the 

 proper season, eggs or very young larvae are found, or from 

 which the swarms of winged individuals issue. That such colo 

 nies, which are quite abundant, are only temporary habitations 

 is proven by the fact that they do not contain any egg-laying 

 females. The eggs are, therefore, carried into them by the 

 workers from other colonies of a more permanent nature, and 

 which should be considered more properly as the "true nests." 

 Such colonies are extremely rare, or, perhaps, only difficult to 

 find, but hitherto only supplementary queens, /'. e., egg-laying 

 individuals with long wing-pads (sexually advanced female 

 pupae), or egg-laying individuals with short wing-pads (sexually 

 advanced female larvae), have been found in them. A true 

 queen, /. <?., an egg-laying female imago with wing-stumps, has 

 never been found, and is probably never developed in Termes 

 flavipes, a fact which would be well in accord with the wander 

 ing habit of this species. 



2 MYRMECOPHILOUS SPECIES. 



Species belonging, in my opinion, to the class of accidental 

 visitors in ants' nests and which have been found or recorded 

 since the publication of my paper on Myrmecophilous Coleoptera 

 (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., i, 1890, pp. 237-247) are not enumer 

 ated in the following list. The occurrence of Tachys incurvus 

 in large number of specimens in the hills of Formica schaufussi 

 and exsectoides as observed at several localities is of interest, but 

 may be explained by the fact that the earth of which these hills 

 are constructed retains always a considerable amount of moisture 

 which, during periods of severe drought, is naturally greatly at 

 tractive to these beetles. 



Fustiger fuchsi Brend. Found by Mr. H. F. Wickham with 

 Cremastogaster lineolata, at Williams, Ariz. (Psyche, 6, 

 1892, p. 321). 



Fustiger californicus Brend. Specimens of the ant with 

 which this species was found by Mr. A. Koebele near Los An 

 geles, Gala., prove to be Cremastogaster lineolata* 



Adranes n. sp. Many specimens were found by Mr. H. G. 

 Hubbard^in a colony of Lasius rubripes at Lake Tahoe, Gala., 

 July 12, 1891. The species agrees in size and color with A. 

 lecontei, but the males are at once distinguished by the absence 

 of the triangular metasternal ridges and by the much shorter 

 spine at the base of the middle femora. I have seen other speci- 



* For the determination of the ants mentioned in this list I am indebted 

 to Mr. Theo. Pergande. 



