290 THE entomologist's nECORD. 



Lonr/itarsufi /acobaeae, Wat., var. '^riifescens, Fow. — Sandown 

 <Bedweil). 



* Salpintfii'^ raiitanei(><, Panz. — Parkhurst Forest (Nicholson). 



■-'' MordelUiitena lu'iiwaldeifi/iana, Pz. — Sweeping in lane, Morton, 

 August (Oonisthorpe). 



'•■ RIiy)ichiti's aeneorirena, Marsh. — Alverstone (Taylor). 



''• Thn/oi/enes t^cirrhosun, Gyll. — " Pits," Sandown (Donisthorpe). 



* Siincro7iyx reichei, Gyll., and also its var. ^-cJiampionis, Fow. — 

 On Cuscuta epitJnjminn , Parkhurst Forest, August (Donisthorpe and 

 Nicholson). 



"•- Rhinoncas castor, F.— Lake, near Sandown (Newbery). 



* Calandra oryzae, L. — In rice, Sandown (Taylor). 

 Mr. E. A. Newbery kindly named my Honmlotae. 



A var. of Stenus binotatus, Ljun., with black antennae was taken 

 at Sandown by Mr. Donisthorpe while sweeping water plants; 

 fortunately the specimen was a male. 



Notes on the capture of Claviger longicornis, Mull., and a Descrip- 

 tion of its supposed Larva. {With plate.) 

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



P. W. J. Miiller, who described Claiif/er longicornis, in 1818, 

 points out that it lives with a yellow ant that is somewhat larger than 

 Lasinn fiaviifi. (This ant would be either L. mubratnK or L. mi.rtiis, both 

 of which were described by Nylander in 1846). Subsequently Rouget, 

 Lokaj, Saulcy, Reitter, Richen, Rupertsberger and Wasmann, all 

 captured it with L. nmbrattuf. Ganglbauer records it with L. briinnens, 

 Schenck, and von Hagens with L. niner, and Forel found a specimen 

 with Mijrmica laevinodis. Wasmann, who studied it at Prague, 

 established in 1894, that its normal host was L. umbratns, that it was 

 found more rarely with L. briinneiifi, rarely with L. nir/er, and with 

 Myrnriea as a chance capture. Schmitz discovered it at Maastricht 

 in 1907 with L. xanbratnn, and next year he published a most interesting 

 paper on this fine myrmecophile. 



In our own literature the following references to C. lonniroruiti 

 occur : — Janson, the pioneer in the study of British myrmecophilous 

 ■coleoptera, writes in 1857 — " In Germany and France a second species 

 of Clariyer [0. longicornis Miiller) is found .... if assiduously 

 searched for it would probably be met with here." It does not appear 

 to be mentioned again till 1908, when Donisthorpe, in a short paper on 

 the British ants, points out that C longicornis is found with L. iinibratns 

 on the continent, and remarks, " When shall I capture, or hear of tlie 

 capture of this beetle here?" On November 2nd, 1910, the snme 

 observer exhibited a specimen of this beetle with its host L. uuihratus 

 taken by Schmitz in Germany, at a meeting of the Entomological 

 Society of London, and said it should occur in Britain with the same 

 ant. On March 20th, 1912, Walker exhibited five specimens taken by 

 him in 190(5 in nests of a small black ant under stones near KirtliuL;- 

 ton in Oxfordshire. He had put them away in his duplicate boxes 

 under the impression they were the common species C. testaccus, and 

 had only just found out what a prize he had taken. In May, 1912, 

 when recording the species as a British insect, he remarks that he 



