NEW BRITISH SPECIES NOTICED IN 1856. 73 



Found by Mr. Waterhouse in company with Formica 

 fuliginosa near Brockenhurst : previously taken, unaccom- 

 panied by the ant, by the same gentleman, early in the 

 spring, at Sydenham. 

 9. Homalota plana, Gyll., Erich ; Power, Zool. 5177 

 (1856), [erroneously deplanata]. 

 The true Horn, deplanata has, I believe, never been de- 

 tected in Britain. Stephens' descriptions refer to H. plana, 

 represented in his cabinet by H. cuspidata. H, plana 

 occurs not unfrequently beneath bark of felled trees, in the 

 neighbourhood of London ; I have met with it abundantly 

 at Highgate, Hampstead and Finchley; and Mr. Edwin 

 Shepherd has taken it at Putney. 



10. Homalota cuspidata, Erich.; Power, Zool. 5177 



(1856). 

 As before observed, this insect stands in the Stephensian 

 cabinet labelled Homalota plana; Stephens's descriptions, 

 however, refer to the true plana, and are abridged from 

 Gyllenhal, the Latin diagnosis being copied verbatim. I 

 have found this insect at Colney-hatch, Hampstead and 

 Mickleham ; it occurs sparingly beneath the bark of dead 

 trees. 



11. Homalota flavipes, Grav., Erich. 



Found by myself in nests of Formica rufa at Hampstead 

 and Highgate, and by Mr. Waterhouse near Erith. 



12. Homalota confusa, Maerkel in Germar, Zeitschr. f. d. 



Entom. v. 215, 41 (1844) ; Kraatz, Naturgesch. d. 

 Insect. Deutschl. ii. 264, 71 (1856). 

 Several specimens taken by Mr. Waterhouse in the com- 

 pany of Formica fuliginosa near Brockenhurst. 



13. Homalota anceps, Erich. 



Taken by myself in nests of Formica rufa near Highgate, 

 and by Mr. Waterhouse near Erith. 



