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the reader to the remarks under this species in the foregoing 

 List, No. 9. 



Homoeusa acuminata, Maerkel, Kraatz, hitherto unique, 

 has again been found by Mr. Wollaston in the locality, and 

 under the circumstances mentioned in last year's Annual, viz. 

 on the chalky downs, near Bromley, Kent, in nests of Formica 

 fusca, beneath flints ; and to that gentleman's kindness, for a 

 long and arduous search had yielded him but a slender 

 store, I am indebted for a comely pair of this elegant little 

 species. On the 16th of May last, I found a specimen, 

 within the London district, running at the base of a fence, 

 where Formica flava and Myrmica rubra abounded, Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. 1 June, 1857, Zool. 5768 (1857). 



Dinardi Maerkelii, Kiesenw. Two specimens of this 

 curious insect were secured last autumn, by Mr. H. Adams, 

 near Swansea, in a nest of Formica rvfa, thus again con- 

 firming the accuracy and trustworthiness of the late Dr. 

 Leach, who, Mr. Dillwyn informs us, " Materials for a 

 Fauna and Flora of Swansea and its Neighbourhood," 20 

 (1848), took it on the sand-hills near that town in the 

 summer of 1809. Dr. Leach deposited this specimen in the 

 national collection, when it remained unique as a British 

 representative for nearly half a century, that is to say, until 

 1856, in the summer of which year I succeeded in re- 

 discovering it [Proc. Ent. Soc. 1 Sept. 1856, Zool. 5305 

 (1856)] — the spell was broken— and the day is probably not 

 far distant, when every collection in the land will, in this insect, 

 vindicate the truthfulness of one of the most comprehensive 

 and vigorous minds that have ever been turned to the study 

 of natural history. 



Dinar da dentata, Grav. Discovered in the spring of the 

 present year, near Plymouth, in nests of Formica fusca, by 

 Mr. J. J. Reading, whose Entomological enthusiasm and 



