8 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



carried them from quite a long distance to their nest. Sernander^* in his 

 monograph on European Myrmecochorous Seeds, shows that these 

 seeds are also attractive to ants of the genus Formica. 



The following Myrmecophiles have occurred with this species in 

 Britain : — 



CoLEOPTERA. — Ateiiieles einarrfinatiis, Pk. New Forest, Porlock, etc. 

 (Donisthorpe). 



Dnmlla canaliculata, F. Largo Links {Evans' MS.); Aviemore, and 

 carrying dead rujiinodis in its jaws, Chiddingfold (Donist/mrpe^'^). 



Lamprintis sa<iinatus, Gv. Tubney {Walko-^^) \ v^ith Myrmica up. 7 

 Nethy Bridge {Beare^^). 



Staphylinus stercorarius, 01. Rannoch on several occasions 

 {Walker'j. 



DiPTERA. — Microdon mutabilis, L. Crawley^^ and I found a small 

 larva of this fly in a nest at Porlock. The only record, I believe, with 

 a Myriiiica. 



IcHNEUMONiD^. — Pezomachus aqitisr/ranensis, Forst. Bentley Woods, 

 Suffolk {Morlef'). 



Proctotrupid^. — Ceraphron sp. ? Buddon Wood, Leicestershire 

 {Donisthor})e''^). 



GoL.t.EMBOL.A.—Smynthitriis caecus, Tull. Six specimens in a nest, 

 1,200ft., near Leadhills, Lanarkshire (Evans''''). 



AcARiNA. — Laelaps viyrmecophiltis, Berl. Dartmouth [Donisthorpe^^' '"'') 

 Hypopi. Parfit^* records the early stages of an Acarns on the abdomen 

 and antennae of the ants in a nest near Exeter. 



<8 Ktmgl. Svensk. Vetensk. HanclL, 41, 7, 1906, p. 143. 



49 Ent. Record, 1900, pp. 238 and 335. 



50 Ent. Mo. Maq., 1905, p. 181. 

 *i Ent. Mo. Mag., 1911, p. 139. 

 S2 Ent. Mo. Mag., 1900, p. 25. 

 58 Ent. Record, 1912, p. 35. 



54 Brit. Ichneum., ii., 1907, p. 186. 

 5* Ent. Record, 1908, p. 106. 



56 Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1901, p. 155. 



57 Ent. Record, 1909, p. 20. 



58 Ent. Mo. Mag., xviii., 1881, p. 43. 



(To be concluded.) 



An Old Essex Collection. 



By the Kev. G. H. KAYNOR, M.A. 

 (Continued from T'oZ. .xxiv., p. 293.) 



My friend, Mr. E. E. Bentall, who owns the collection under 

 review, has now heard from Mr. Andrew Marriage, to whom the 

 cabinet recently belonged, that it was formed by Mr. Alfred Greenwood 

 who was a good naturalist and a brother of Mr. Marriage's late 

 mother-in-law, Mrs. Robert Warner, into whose possession the 

 collection came. 



The cabinet itself is a wonderfully good piece of work. 



Whether Mr. Greenwood was a well-known entomologist, or not, I 

 am unable to say, but his name does not appear in the very interesting 

 list of entomologists living in the year 1860 published in the Entomo- 

 logists' Annual for that year. 



