218 THE entomologist's record. 



r, ■ 1 . . / • r^ 1 I (bub-fam. Blattmae.) 

 Henplaneta australasiae, rab. I ^ ' 



Rhiparobia maderae, Fab. ] /a i r /, ; » • \ 



r, "^^ , . ■ T (bub-fam. Panchlorinae.) 



t-'i/ciioscelus surniamensis, Ju.J ^ ' 



but the following have an extremely wide distribution and will also be 



considered : — '•■ 



Supella sapellectilinm, Serv. (Sub-fam. Pseiidomopinae.) 



Xeo.ftylopi/ya rho»ibi folia, Stoll. ] 



Blatta orientalis, L. - (Sub-iam. Blattinae.) 



Periplaneta brnnnea, Burm. (truncata, Kr.)j 



Xauplioeta cinerea, Oliv. (Sub-fam. Panchlorinae.) 



Enthijrrhapha pacifica, Coq. (Sub-fam. ( 'orijdiinae.) 



All of the above, with the exception of IJ. orientali!>, L., are 



essentially tropical insects, occasionally ranging into temperate zones 



but unable apparently to establish themselves permanently there. 



[*' These posthumous papers of my old friend are rough notes 



drafted during his long illness, in preparation of some essays on 



various interesting subjects in which he was eminently qualified to 



write. Though rough and incomplete, I cannot help thinking that 



these are worth publishing, as they are useful and interesting in 



themselves. — M. B."l 



Anergates atratulus, Schenk., a British Ant, and tlie acceptance 

 of a $ by Tetramorium caespitum, L 



By W. C. CRAWLEY, B.A., F.E.S. 



On July 23rd of this year my friend Mr. Donistborp'e and I were 

 collecting ants in the New Forest near Lyndhurst, where Tetrainoritdii 

 caespitiDii is abundant, Avhen I was attracted by the large size and 

 deep black colour of some ^ s ol Tetrainorimn that were coming out of 

 some galleries on the side of a small mound. On removing the earth 

 covering these galleries 1 found numbers of a small black winged 

 5 ant among the Tetrataoriam. Mr. Donisthorpe then coming up, 

 we carefully excavated the nest, which nowhere descended more than 

 two or three inches into the sandy soil. The colony consisted of an 

 obese queen, 20-30 winged J s, and three (? s of Anerijates atratulus, 

 with a fair number (several hundreds) of -Tetramurinm caespitani ^ s. 

 The only pupa? and larv.e were those of Anen/atcs, and there were, of 

 course, no J s or $ s of Tetrainorinin. I established this colony in a 

 terra-cotta Janet nest, where it is doing well. The queen lays an 

 enormous quantity of eggs, most of which are devoured by the ? s, 

 the Anenjatcs queen thus being an important source of food-supply. 

 The Tetramorium ^ s readily received and hatched out strange larvte 

 and pupa' of their own species. 



This curious parasitic ant, with an apterous pupoid J a»d no ^ 

 caste, now established as British, was first discovered by Schenk, at 

 Weilburg in 1852. C. W. Dale in 1897, speaking of T. caespitum, 

 mentions Anen^ates atratiila, Sch., as occurring with it, and says it is 



• Kirby in his Syvonyinic Catalogue of the Orthoptera, vol. i., quotes a wide 

 distribution for Isclnioptera rufcscoi.t, Beiiuv., to which name he appends 

 numerous synonyms. I am by no means satisfied that this synonymy can be 

 estabhshed entirely, and until that is done the exact geographical distribution of 

 the species remains in doubt. I therefore omit all further reference to it. 



