(Page 440) 



The head is fully as broad as pronotum, feebly narrowing anteriorly, 

 the sides with fine and scattered punctation; antennal third joint 

 very short, rounded; pronotum oblong, slightly narrowing posteriorly 

 with 8-10 punctures in each of dorsal and side rows, pronotum and head 

 with ground-surface smooth or very indistinctly transversally aciculat- 

 ed; elytra as long as pronotum, elytra and abdomen punctated about as 

 in the preceding species. L. 3-4 mm. 



It lives in the mounds with Formica rufa and pratensis , and is with 

 these ants distributed everywhere in this country, and not rare. 

 The ants seems to ignore or tolerate it. ""hen a mound is abandoned by 

 the ants, it, together with many other ant-guests moves along, or seeks 

 out some other mound. Outside of ant mounds it is not found. North and 

 Middle Europe, Spain, Cyprus. 



•193- 



