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Stevens ; also Astilhus eanalicidatus with the same ant, and Atemeles 

 acuminatum with F.fnsca. Kiesenwetter in 1843^" first records Myrme- 

 donia cognata and 21. liu/enti with L. fulif/inonus, also M. funesta, M. 

 laticollis, and M. huuwralu with the same ant. Homalota anceps with 

 F. rufa, as well &s L. fulif/inosus, and describes Dinarda macrkeli, 

 Scophaeus pusilhis, and (Jthions viijrviecopJiilua with F. riifa. In 1844, 

 Boheman gives'^ a list of beetles taken by him with Z^'. riifa, and, in 

 the same year, Schioedte records^" the myrmecophilous beetles captured 

 by him in Denmark. In 1845, Grimm mentions^'* 67 species of 

 coleoptera he has taken with ants near Berlin, and says the ants lick 

 some of the species of Stapliiilinidae. In 1849, Kraatz also gives'^" a 

 list of myrmecophilous beetles he has taken, referring to the work done 

 by Grimm and others ; and in 1851 he gives-' a further list, and describes 

 Ptenidium formicetorum which he took with F. rufa and L. fidu/inosus. 

 Bach, in 1851, records'" L'hennuunhituhcrcidatnrii with. 21 i/r mica impura 

 ( = Tc'tramoriu)ii caespitum), Clarijjer lomjicornis and Batrisus vennstus 

 with Formica timida { = Lasius hrunneus) and Clavif/er testaceus with 

 the last ant, as also Formica fiisca. In 1852, Mr. Weaver exhibited at 

 the Ent. Soc. meeting on Nov. 1st, Cetonia arnea, hatched from larvffi 

 taken in F. rufa nests in Scotland, and said the larva? fed on the pupte 

 of the ants. Fairmaire'-^ in 1854, records the species of Coleoptera 

 found with ants in France. In 1857, Janson, in a most useful paper'^^ 

 on " The Myrmecophilous Coleoptera of Britain," records the following 

 species, with their respective hosts : Trichoiujx .' with F.jiava, Claviyer 

 testaceus v^'ith F. jiava and F./usca, 2bjrmedonia canaliculata with F. 

 Jiava and M. rubra, M. limbata with F.Jiava and F. fnliginosa, M. 

 humeralis with F. rufa, M. coc/nata, M. funesta, M. laticollis, and M. 

 Iwjens with F. fuW/inosa, 21. haworthi with F. rufa (/), 21. collaris 

 with 21ijrmica rubra (/), Homalota fiacipes with F. rufa, H. confusa 

 with F. fulvjinosa, H. anceps with F. rufa, Oxypoda rittata with F. 

 fuWjinosa, 0. haemurrlwa and 0. formiceticola with F. rufa, Aleuchara 

 rufcornis with 7^^ fusca, Thiasophila anijulata with F. rufa, Homoeusa 

 acuminata with F. fusca, Dinarda )iiacrkeli with F. rufa, Lomechusa 

 strumosa with F. rufa, Atemeles paradoxus ^\\ih. F. fusca, A. emarginatus 

 with F. fusca and M. rubra, Leptacinus formicetorum with F. rufa, 

 Staphi/linus latebriada with 21. rubra, Quedius brevis with F. rufa, 

 Hctaerius sesqtiicornis with F. fusca and F. Jiava, Dendrophilus 2)unctatus 

 and D. pijgmaeus with F. rufa, Saprinus piceus with F. rufa, Amphotis 

 marginata with F. fuliginosa, Cetonia aurata (larva) with F. rufa, 

 Clythra A-punctata with F. rufa, 2Ionotoma conicicoUis and 21. anf/usti- 

 collis with F. rifa. In 1857'^^ the capture by Wollaston of Nitidula 

 marginata { = Amphotis) with Formica fuliginosa at Pangbourne, and 

 Clavif/er testaceus and Hoinoeusa acuminata with F. fusca near 



i« Stett. Ent. Ztg., 1843, p. 306-310. 

 " Oefvers. K. Sv. Vet. Ak. Fork., 1844, p. 155. 

 i« Germar's Zeitschr. f. Ent., v., 1844, p. 473. 

 w Stett. Ent. Ztg., 1845, p. 123-13(;. 



20 „ „ „ 1849, p. 184-187. 



21 „ ., „ 1851, p. 1G6-170. 



22 „ „ „ 1851, p. 303-304. 



28 Faune Entom. Franqahe. CoUopteres. Paris, 1854. 



24 Ent. Annual, 1857. p. 85-96. 



25 Ent. Week Intell, June 13th, 1857, p. 86. 



