56 



THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



with ants, records the capture of StapJnjlinus stercorariiis with Lrt,s•^/^s 

 flavHn and Dnulrophilus pimctatiis with Formica rufa. In 1896, 

 he further giyes^*^ a complete list to date of the British species of 

 myrmecophilous coleoptera with their hosts, and, in 1897, in a 

 list'^ of beetles taken with ants, records Hetemtlwps 4:-pii7ictiila with 

 Formica rufa at Weybridge. In 1898 Wasmann publishes a most 

 interesting paper"'" on the guests of ants and termites, going deeply 

 into the life-history of the guests and their relation to their hosts. 

 In 1899, the same author, in a paper'" on the psychical capabilities of 

 ants, deals with this intricate question by means of many ingenious 

 experiments with ants and with their guests. In 1899, Harwood 

 records''" Heterothops quadripnnctiila with F. rufa and Hister viarfiinatiis 

 with 7^'. ritfa and L. fiiUf/inosus, both near Colchester. In 1899, 

 Donisthorpe records"^ the capture of Quedim mexovieliniis in numbers 

 with Lasitis fnliginoms at Chiddingfold, and in 1900 he notes'"'^ 

 Clavif/er testaceus with Lasiiis alienm^ for the first time in England, 

 gives some notes on the life-history of Clythra ^-punctata, considering 

 it to be a " mimic " of Coccinella diatincta, and also a table of all the 

 British myrmecophilous coleoptera according to Wasmann's method as 

 applied to those of Hollandish Liml)urg, and later in the year he 

 records"'^ the capture of Mi/rinica collar is and its larvae in numbers 

 with M]irmica laerinodin at Wicken Fen. In 1900, Walker records''* 

 the capture of Staphj/liuiis stercorariiis with Mijrmica rmjinodis at 

 Rannoch. 



56 Ent. Mo. Maf)., Feb. and March, 1896. 



87 Ent. Eecorcl^Oet, 1897. 



6« IlliiMr. Ztschr. f. Eiitom., Heft 10-16, 



■i' Zooloijica, Heft 26, Stuttgart, 1899. 



60 Ent. Mo. Map., March, 1899. 



01 Ent. Record, Oct., 1899. 



62 Ent. Eecord, .July, 1900. 



68 Ent. Eecord, Oct., 1900. 



64 Ent. Mo. Mag., Feb., 1900. 



1898. 



The last Christmas of the Nineteenth Century. 



By SELWYN IMAGE, M.A., F.E.S. 



The thin sands of the dwindHng glass 

 Eun swiftly. Ah ! my soul, alas ! 

 A single grain thou may'st not stay. 

 Nor one poor step retrace the way 

 Of unconsidered hours. For gain 

 Or loss the account stands fixed. In 



vain 

 Well bitter tears for things undone, 

 Or victories thou might'st have won. 

 Or falls that tiung thee in the dust. 

 Or visions from thy pathway thrust 

 By meaner aims. 



What might have been ! 

 And lo ! what is, now all is seen ! 



A withered branch for fruit and Hower, 

 A heap of barren sand for dower 

 Of fair accomplishment, at best 

 A wraith of idle fancies, crest 

 On crest of unsubstantial foam ! 

 What hast thou garnered in thy home ? 

 Nor, piteous one, because the light 

 Was stern, nor yet because the night 



With storm fell oft upon thee, not 

 Because with mortal ills thy lot 

 Was circumstanced, thou hast to lay 

 Thy quivering face in dust to-day. 



To-Day ! Ah ! listen on the air 

 Ring other notes than wan despair. 

 Let the dead bury their dead. But thou. 

 Though faintly throbs thy pulse, thy brow 

 With dust's defiled, lift up thine eyes : 

 The world's around thee yet, the sky's 

 Above thee ! Not that thou should'st 



groan 

 Prostrate in helpless idle moan 

 The irrevocable Past breaks in. 

 Grim ghost of weariness and sin. 



Look thou upon it, let it lie 



The poor dead thing it is. " But I," 



Soul to thine inmost being say, 



" Press onward where the new world's 



Day 

 " Holds work in store without complaint, 

 " And waits for sinner as for saint ! " 



