NOTES ON THE BRITISH MYKHEOOPHILOUS FAUNA. 39 



ously attended by ants for the sake of a sweet juice excreted by them. 

 Mr. E. Green {Ent. Mo. Ma^/., 1900, p. 185) gives a note on the 

 attractive properties of certain larval ILeiniptera. 



Aphidid.e. — Forda fonnicaria, C. Heyd. — Buckton (MiDKy/ra/i/i nf 

 British Apliidae, vol. iv., p. 84) records specimens taken by Mr. -J. 

 Hardy from Mi/niiica nests in Berwickshire, and by Sir John Lubbock 

 at Beckeuham. He considers that there is abundant proof that l-'ania 

 is a common companion of ants. Wasmann (lor. fit., p. 187) says it is 

 found in the nests of most small species of ants, especially with Lasiu^t 

 riai-Hs. He points out that all the old records of plant-lice with ants, 

 such as Huber, Spence, F. Smith, &c., refer to this species. I have 

 taken it in the nests of Lcxsiua jiarns in the Isle of Wight. 



Forda viridana, Buckt. — Buckton [loc. rit., iv., p. 85) records it as 

 being found in small companies in ants' nests covered by tufts of various 

 grasses, and that the malachite-green variety may often be taken in 

 quantity, nesting with Formica fuliijinosa. Wasmann {loc. cit., p. 187) 

 records it with L. Hams, in Bohemia. 



ParaiietKs cimicifonnis, C. Heyd. — -Buckton {loo. cit., iii., p. 67) says 

 that this Aphid has been taken in the nest of F. rufa, and then usually 

 in company with another underground species, Fnrda fonnicaria. New- 

 stead {Knt. Mo. Mail., 1893, p. 115) records a colony of this species 

 from a nest of i*. jiava at the Loggerheads, near Mold, North ^\'ales. 

 Wasmann [hn-. cit., p. 187) says, "in a nest of F. rufa in Germany." 



Tychaca nctariae, Pass. — Buckton (bjc. cit., iv., p. 88) writes: 

 '* Taken in ant-hills at Beckenham." Wasmann [Inc. cit., p. 187) 

 captured it in a nest of Tetramorinin caespitnm in Bohemia. 



Tychaca triviaUs, Pass. — Buckton [loc.cit., iv., p. 86) says, " Taken 

 in ants' nests at Beckenham." Wasmann [Ivc. cit,, p. 187) took it 

 with Formica sanyuinea in Holland. 



Tycliaea sctidosa. Pass. — -Buckton [loc.cit., iv., p. 87) says Sir John 

 Lubbock took it in ants' nests near Beckenham. 



Tychaca eraynjstidis, Buckt. — -Buckton [loc. cit., iv., p. 89) records 

 it from ants' nests at Beckenham, and also at the Cheviot. 



Trama troylodytcs, Heyden. — Buckton (loc. cit., iii., p. 69) states 

 that Sir John Lubbock found it in ants' nests at Beckenham, and Mr. 

 Hardy in similar localities on the Grampian Hills. He further says 

 it is common in the nests of M. rahra and F. fuliyinosa on the high 

 moors in Berwickshire. 



Fndeis formicina, Buckt. — Buckton {loc. cit., iv., p. 91) writes : 

 " In May they were numerous in the ant-hills under roots of Carex 

 dioica. They mostly affected those nests of Formica umhrina, which 

 were located on the dry slopes." 



Endcis jicllitcida, Buckt. — Buckton (loc. cit., iv., p. 92) writes: 

 " Taken under tufts of grass, such as Poa annua, covering the nests 

 of ants. . . . They were found at Beckenham in February." 



Endcis carnota, Buckt. — Buckton {loc. cit., iv., p. 92) records it in 

 an ants' nest at Beckenham with several other Aphides, including 

 Trama and Faraclctiis. 



Laclinus formicnpliiliis, Buckt. — -This new species to Britain and to 

 science was described by Mr. Buckton {Science (jossip, Feb., 1901) 

 from a S taken by me in a nest of Formica rufa, at Oxshott, in 1900. 



Coccid;e. — Lccanopsis furmicarum, Newst. — Newstead {Ent. Mo. 

 May., 1893, p. 138) records two specimens sent him from a nest of 

 Ijasius niycr, on the Chesil Beac-h, by Mr. Bale. 



