32 Arthur M. Lea: 



I .icra hi tea, Mayr. 



Ectatoiinna ><oriah's, Macl. 



Tliere are before me four, evidently co-type specimens, of an ant 

 from Mr. Masters's collection ; they were placed with four specimens 

 of the beetle T mexi plionm for/nirinu'^, and labelled Mundarlo, with 

 the nam© Ectatomma socialis, the original collector and the original 

 locality. The name is, as I previo'usly suspected, a synonym of Poiiera 

 httea. 



Iridomyrmer c/Jaher, Mayr. 



I received this name from the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington for the species previously referred to as Colohopsis Gasseri. I 

 have not been able as yet to check the names of ants with the original 

 descriptions, although I hope to do^ this later, meanwhile having to 

 take the names on trust. The species is an important one from a 

 coleopterist's point of view, as it is common, widely distributed, and 

 the host ot many species of beetles. i 



The true C. Gasseri, I am now given to under.stand, is a rather scarce 

 species, having its nests in old fences, stumps and hollow ti-ees, and 

 from whose nests I have never taken an inquiline of any sort. Nor is 

 it even close in appearance to /. glat)er. 



Previously the name /. glatjer was received for a moderately 

 common species from New South Wales, with long and fairly numerous 

 setae scattered al)Out. The name struck me as a most inappropriate 

 one, but it appears now that the identitication was incorrect. 



Carabidab. 



Nototariii< (III ftf rati s, Chaud. 



In his catalogue Wasmann records this species as from ants' nests. 



*Philo2ihlaeus wi/rmeropJiilu-t, n.sp. (Plate IT., Fig. 1.) 

 3'. Reddish-flavous, a])pendages and elytral vittae somewhat paler ; 

 elytra piceous, the margins narrowly paler, each with a longitudinal 

 vitta commencing near the base and extending to about one-tifth 

 from apex ; pygidium and sides of under surface more or less piceous. 

 Lightly clothed with short and somewhat' golden pubescence, sparser 

 on head and on middle of ))r()tliorax and of under surface than else- 

 where ; with a few setiferous punctures. 



1 The species previously listed as oceurriiif;- witli this species of nut are: Falagria Fauveli, 

 p. 122 ; J'oli/lobiiK colobo^isis, p. 128 : /'. intnpidiis, p 12'.» ; Dabrosoma pubi'inYns, p. 135, 

 Ctfuisop/ian morosuii, p. 155 ; C. rmpifssus, p. 155; Articfnin aiirijlinin p. 1(54; .1. ciirvicurnis; 

 p. 1C5; Scydafmmii colubiipsi.1, p. 181; S. Dam-i/i, p. 182; Aninotoina iiinrmecupliila, p. 189; 

 Rodwayia iniiiula, p. 19(5; /.'. onentalis, p. 1%; Bothiidf.res tibialis, p. 210; AiUhicus i/laher, 

 p. 225. 



