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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



Ihiisilla ranalicnlata, F. — A specimen was taken at Hauwell on 

 July 21st, which bad just killed a L. nujer, and was carrying it off, 

 and on September 6th another was found at Ditchling with a dead 

 yi. Kvabrinodis in its jaws. 



Qiicdiiis bn'rif!, Er. — ^Crawley and I found specimens with F. riifa, 

 at Weybridge, on December 8th. Its other normal host is, of course, 

 />. fnli<iinosns. Wasrnann''' recorded it with the former in Dutch 

 Limburg, from January to December, and with the latter from April 

 to October, or December. In looking up all my records of this beetle 

 I find I have taken it with nifa in January, February, March, April, 

 May and December, and with fiiU;/inosits in April, May, September 

 and October. I found its young larvje in numbers with the latter, at 

 AVellington College, in May, 1906. 



BijtJiinus (jlah ratlin, Rye. — Bedwell and I found this beetle with 

 Fonera contractn at Box Hill, in May. Bennett took it with the same 

 ant, at Mickleham, in 1908. 



Hctacrias ferniijineits, 01. — Bedwell and I found two specimens of 

 this rare little Histerid in a nest of F. ftisca at Box Hill, in the same 

 locality where he discovered it last year. I must express my best 

 thanks to him for kindly taking me to this spot. It is evidently very 

 rare there, as much search in other nests, and further visits by both of 

 us on other occasions, failed to produce any more. Indeed it must be 

 very scarce in Britain, when one considers the hundreds, probably 

 thousands, of fnsca and other nests I have investigated in the last 

 twenty years, and have never had the good fortune to come across it 

 before. 



Deiuhophiliis pi/i/iiiaein^, L. — This beetle has bred out of my F. riifa 

 nest as usual this year. On September 28th I put a specimen into 

 a small plaster nest with some fifteen rufa ^ s. On December 1st 

 I noticed one of the workers licking the back of the beetle, which 

 remained motionless, for a long time. It is still alive to day, 

 February 19th. 



Opatriun sabido^niii, L. — On May 14th I found this common beetle 

 with L. niger at Sandown, Isle of Wight. On April 18th, 1909, 1 found 

 several specimens in nests of the same ant at Whitsand Bay and 

 Tregantle, and have before found it in ants' nests. I think it is as well 

 to record these facts, because Rupertsbergerf found the larvae of this 

 beetle in plenty with F.fiisca, and more sparingly with F. saiujuinea, 

 in Austria, and considered they were undoubtedly the tolerated guests 

 of the ants. H. Klene, S.J., found the beetle near Feldlurch, in 

 February, in numbers, on the top of a pratenais nest, for the purposes 

 of laying their eggs. As Wasmann| remarks, it would be interesting 

 to find that this very common beetle is a regular myrmecophile in the 

 larval state. I put the Ojiatriuii from Sandown into my ftinca nest 

 from Darenth Wood. It was not much attacked by the ants, and it 

 lived in the nest for three or four months before it died. 



DiPTERA. — Ccratnpoijon iiujniiecophilns, Egg. — On May 18th I cap- 

 tured a 2 of this myrmecophilous fly in a nest of F. c.vxceta, which 

 I had brought up from Parkhurst Forest on May 15th. This is a new 

 locality and host for the species, it having only occurred with F. rufa 



* Ameisen u. Ameisengaate v. Hollandisch Limhurg, 1891, pp. 56 and 60. 



t Wien. Ent. Ztg., 1893, pp. 247-249. 



+ Krit. Verz. d. Myr. u. Ter. Arth., 1894, p. 157. 



