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markings. Around Darmstadt, August." "No. 187. Hessii, Boisd. ; 

 neurica, Hb. 659-61. — Much too robust, outline of the forewings 

 defective. Fuscoferruginea, stigmate reniformi versus limbum et 

 marginem interiorem albocincto. Differs from neurica in appearance 

 only by the reddish-brown colour of the forewings. The central spot 

 extending more towards the outer margin, its form seems more like 

 the usual reniform, the three dots, however, on its outer border are 

 missing. Darmstadt." 



(To be continual.) 



Myrmecophilous notes for 1906 (with two plates). 



By H. St. J. K. DONISTHORPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 (Concluded from vol. xviii., p. 319.) 



Diptera. — Ceratopogon myrmecophilus, Egger. — I have this year 

 bred several 3 s and $ s of this rare species out of my observation 

 nest of Formica rufa from Weybridge. Mr. Morley tells me he has 

 taken it in Suffolk. It will be remembered that I took it for the 

 first time in Britain a few years ago at Oxshott. 



Plii/Uomyza, n. sp. ? — All the specimens recorded from ants' nests 

 herel.oiore as Phyllomyza securicornis, Fin., are not that species, Mr. 

 Collin tells me, but include two species new to science, one found with 

 Formica rufa, and the other with Lasius fuliginosus. The former I 

 bred in some numbers from my F. rufa nest from Weybridge this 

 year, and have taken it before at Oxshott. The latter I have bred in 

 numbers from my L. fuliginosus nest from 'Wellington College, and 

 have taken it before at Oxshott and Birkdale sandhills. Mr. Collin 

 will shortly describe and figure them. 



Scatopse infumata, Hal. — I bred this species this year from my 

 Weybridge /•'. rufa nest. 



Scatopse transversalis, n. var. — I bred this species also in numbers 

 from my Wellington College nest of Lasius fuliginosus. Last year 

 I took it with the same ant on the Birkdale sandhills. 



1 'Intra inaequalis, Wood. — I took this species in plenty with Lasius 

 fuliginosus, at Wellington College. It occurred in numbers in the 

 actual nest of the ant (which contained the ants' larvae), built in the 

 inside of a post, and must have bred there. 



Phora pulicaria, Fald. — I bred this species from my Weybridge 

 F. rufa nest. Wasmann records it from the same ant's nest. 



Limosina curtiventris, Stnh. — I bred this little fly in numbers from 

 my Wellington College L. fuliginosus nest. This nest, from which I 

 have taken so many species, consists of several handfuls of debris out 

 of the heart of a nest in the root of a birch-tree, full of ants and ant 

 larvae. As I noticed it also contained numbers of dipterous larvae, I 

 brought it home and put it into a large glass bowl. I also bred from 

 it several species of Sciara in some numbers. 



Trineura aterrima, Fab. — I took this species with L. fuliginosus, 

 at Wellington College. 



Bracomd.t:. — Sp. 1 ? — I took two specimens of a handsome black 

 species, with yellow legs and dusky wings, at Weybridge, in July. I 

 saw several hovering over an anthill (F. rufa). They were hovering 

 in the air like birds-of prey, and every now and then swooping at the 



