124 tJ«ne. 



centre of a bare, smooth, circular patch, from memory about a foot in 

 diameter. Across this patch the ants ran with great rapidity in their 

 iourneys to and from the nest. Known as the 'meat ant." " — E. B. P. 



Abundant ahnost over tlie wliole continent. 



I. (h'scors For. — Q g • ^^nder log or stone in busli, near Pertli, 

 Yallingup to Mammoth and Lake Caves, 31.vii.l4. Also a very 

 abundant species in West Australia. 



I. conifer For. — ^ . Perth, stations to Busselton ; Yallingup, close 

 to sea, 30.vii.l4. An extremely abundant species in W. Australia. 

 The nests harbour a great niunber of myrmecophiles. 



" The nests, which were especiall}^ common near the sea at Yallingup, 

 resembled a small Formica rufa nest, but the material was coarser, grey 

 in colour, and freely intermixed with sand. Near one of the nests in 

 this locality a crowd of ants was seen busily engaged in attacking some 

 object. One scoop with a moderate-sized pill-box secured 32 ^ with 

 their prey, a Noctuid larva. The contents of the box were poui'ed into 

 a cyanide bottle, and, when examined later, were found to include a large 

 larva of the Myrmeleonid genus Palpares. It seems probable that tliis 

 predaceous insect had been attracted by the number of ants at one spot 

 and had tunnelled towards and beneath them. Its flexible limbs sug- 

 gested that it had been alive when put into the bottle." — E. B. P. 



I. emery i Crawley. — d $ ^ . This species was described in Ent. 

 Hec. XXX. 5, p. 90, 1918. " A moderate-sized flat stone formed tlie roof 

 of a chamber the floor of which was crowded with winged 5 5 • ^vhile 

 the S 6 were hanging, as densel}' packed, from the ceiling. The close 

 proximity of the sexes— for the chamber was low — combined with their 

 absolute segregation, was a very striking sight." — E. B. P. In the 

 original description the locality was given as Victoria ; it should be 

 N. S. Wales, Blue Mts., near Mt. Victoria, 23.viii,14. 



I.fornicatits Em.- — 10 ^ ^ , under stone, Blue Mts., N.S.W., near 

 Mt. Victoi'ia, 23.viii.ll. Kindly determined for me by Prof. Emery. 



/. itinerans Lowne, race nitidicej)s Andre. — 1 ^ , near Perth, 

 Y^allingup to Mammoth and Lake Caves, imder log or stone in bush, 

 31.vii.l4. The specimen is damaged, but it is almost certainly this 

 species, which I have frequently received from the Perth district. 



I. riifonicjer \jQ\\ve. — 4 ^ 5 , in flower of pink Mesembryanthemum, 

 Adelaide, Outer Harbour, 27.viii.14. 



I. sp. — ^ ^ , under stone, Victoria, near Ilealtsville, near Black 

 Spur, 15.viii.l4. I am unable to identify this species at present. 



