62 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



Wheeler' records the American sub-species of this ant as also being 

 found in other ants* nests. 



Foriiiirn.reniiH nititliiliis, Nyl. — On May 17th I found a deiilated $ 

 and one ^ in a nest of Fnnnira ni/a at Nethy Bridge ; this is its first 

 record for Scotland. It is evidently rare there, as I spent five days in 

 digging up and sifting rnfa nests thoroughly, all over the district, and 

 these were the only specimens I found. 



Fired by my success with Poneta J J" at Box Hill, on September 

 6th I went to Weybridge to try and find <? J of this species, which I 

 had ali=o never captured before. As soon as I got to a rtifa nest in 

 which I have always found dealated $ J and ^ ^ of F. nitiduhin, I 

 observed a ^ running on the top of the nest. The day was cloudy and 

 dull, just such a day as Wheeler^ describes, when he found ^ (^ m the 

 Upper Engadine. 



Further worl^ at the nest produced more $ S , but no winged $ J 

 were found (I have only once taken the winged J , at Bournemouth in 

 1906), but deiilated 5 2 and ^ ^ were numerous. When some of 

 these $ 2 were enclosed in tubes with J J" , the latter immediately 

 climbed on their backs, grasping them round the thorax with their 

 short mandibles. Some of the (^ (? endeavoured also to get /u cojnda 

 with the ? $ , as is also recorded by Wheeler. The <? is easily 

 recognised by its longer antenni«, which are somewhat bent when 

 alive, and by its more active and restless habits. 



Anen/atc'ft atiatidiia, Schenck. — On July 23rd Crawley and I found 

 &n Anerjiafcs-Tetrniiioriimi colony in the Mew Forest. Three (? J*, a 

 large number of winged ? 2 , one obese J , and a number of larvte of 

 the AnerijaU'fi were taken. We have dealt at length with this important 

 discovery in our paper read at the Congress at Oxford, and elsewhere. 



Mi/riiiira scabriiwdis, var. aahnleti, Meinert. — Full details of this 

 variety, will be found in my paper^ on the genus Munnica. I took ^ ^ 

 at Box Hill, on May 5th, and (?(?,$$ and ^ ? in nests in the 

 same locality in September, and in the New Forest in July, and at 

 Seaton in Devon with Crawley in August. Hamm has sent me ^ ^ 

 which he took at Sbotover in 1908, which were named Inhiromis for 

 him by Saunders (a deternimation with which he, Hamm, could never 

 agree), and again in 1905. I have also seen '^ ^ sent to me to name 

 by Bedwell, the locality of which I do not know. 



Myriiiica riKjinodh, Nyl. — Colonies of this species were found on 

 the Isle of Mull and in plenty on the Isle of Tiree in April. 



Leptothnrax acervoniin, F. — G. A. Brown showed me a colony of 

 this ant in a stump at Coatbridge, N.B., in April. (Records of 

 common species like this and the one preceeding, are only given to 

 extend our knowledge of their distribution in liritain). At Nethy 

 Bridge, on May 19th, a solitary dejilated $ was found under a stone. 



3 The Amer. Nat., xxxv., 1901, p. 519. 



* Jour.f. Fyschol. u. Neurol., xiii., 190H, p. 430. 



« Ent. iiec, 1913, p. 43, etc. 



