90 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



nest itself (though the ants were in good condition) was very foul, and 

 decided to move the colony into a clean plaster nest. The old nest 

 was connected with the new by means of an indiarnbber tube, but the 

 ants refused to move. Tobacco smoke proving ineffectual, the fumes 

 of amiaionia were used, when the ants moved into their new quarters, 

 but the ammonia proved too much for the beetles, which died. 



Dinarda hagensi, Wasm. — A number of specimens was observed in 

 the nests of 'F. e.vserta at Parkhurst Forest, I. of W., on September 8th. 

 The beetle was more numerous than I have seen it there before. 



Drnsilla canaliculata, F. — On May 30th a specimen was found in a 

 nest of ■?*'. fusca, on the I. of Tiree. 



Staplii/liniiti ntcrcorariKs, 01. — Mons. Bondrolt gave me a specimen of 

 this beetle, which had been taken b}^ a friend of his in a nest of 

 ' Tetraiiiorium caeKpitinii at Dover, in August, 1910. This capture is of 

 considerable interest, since Wasmann^ has recorded that it is common 

 in nests of Tetrauwniiui in the North of Luxemburg, and he considers 

 it has there become a Tretanioriiim robber. I- had already expressed 

 my opinion that this beetle exhibits a distinct tendency to inhabit 

 ants' nests. The following other records with ants in this country are 

 now known to me. 



With '•'Mi/nnica laevinodis, South Shields, August and September, 

 1860 (Bold).'^ A fine series at South Shields in the nests of a 

 Mynnica (Bold)'*. " In a nest of red ants I found the golden tufted 

 StapJnjlinits stercorarius at Allerston " (Hey).^ W ith'^ Lasiiis fiavus 

 (Donisthorpe)."*"^ With ISIyrmica rufiinodia at Rannoch on several 

 occasions (Walker).^ In a nest of Formica rufa near West Ayton, 

 Yorks, August, 1903 (Hey)". With 'L. liavas at Blackgang and 

 Sandown, Isle of Wight (Donisthorpe).^" In a nest of ^Myrmica 

 acabrhiodis, at the Forth Bridge, in July (Donisthorpe).'^ I shall be 

 glad if anyone will send me further records of the occurrence of this 

 spfecies with ants. 



Neiiraphes carinatiis, Muls. — A specimen of this very rare beetle 

 was dug up, deep in a nest of F\ fusca, at Box Hill, on May 30th. 

 Fowler^'^ gives Shirley (Rye), and a specimen in Dr. Sharp's collection. 

 I only know of two other captures, one by Britten in Cumberland, and 

 the other by Dollman at Ditchling. P^ have before recorded A'. 

 anr/iilatns, Miill., with ants, and Wasmann" records other species, but 



1 " Staphylinus Arten als Ameisenmuber,^' Zeits. f. ivissens. Insaktenhiol., xvi.,. 

 1910. p. 6. 



2 Trans. Ent. Soc. Land., 1909, Pt. III., p. 407. 

 » Zool., 1861, p. 7409. 



* Col. North, and Durh., 1871, p. 37. 



5 Nat., 1895, p. 270. 



« Ent. Mo. Mag., 1895, p. 99. 



7 loc. cit., 1896, p. 48. 



« Ent. Mo. Mag., 1900, p. 25. 



9 Nat., 1904, p. 232. 



10 Proc. Lanes, and Ches. Ent. Soc, 1905, p. 41. 



11 Ent. Bee, 1907, p. 255. 



12 Col. Brit. Isles, U., 1889, p. 75. 



13 Ent. Bee, 1905, p. 271. 



i-i Krit. ver d. Myr. n. Ter. Art., 1894, p. 123. 



