56 STAPHYLiNiDJ!. \_3Iijniiedunia. 



Male with dorsal [jlate of seventh segment of hind body raised in 

 middle and somewhat produced, and emarginate. 



Very rare; in company with F.fnliciinosa; taken in the vicinity of the nests hy 

 sweeping, also from under dead leaves and moss. Reigate, Dulwich Wood, and 

 Sutton, Surrey (Dr. Power and others! ; The Holt, Farnham (Power); near Southend 

 (Gorham) ; Bloxworth (O. P. Cambridge). 



Dr. Sharp has a fine specimexi in his collection from Bishops AYood, 

 Hampstead, measuring 8-8^ mm. 



"Bl. collaris, Payk. Head, elytra, and apex of hind body black, 

 thorax and rest of hind body reddish testaceous ; head narrowed in 

 front and behind, antennae rather long, plainly and gradually thickened 

 towards apex, brownish with the base ferruginous and the three or four 

 apical joints more or less brightly testaceous, penultimate joints rather 

 strongly transverse, thorax about as broad as long, with coarse diffuse 

 punctures ; elytra broader than thorax, and hardly longer, diffusely and 

 not deeply punctured ; hind body with sides slightly rounded^ almost 

 smooth behind, with base of front segments impressed and strongly 

 punctured ; legs testaceous. L. 4 mm. 



Male with the ventral plate of seventh segment of hind body pro- 

 longed in the middle of its apical margin in a short plate which is 

 emarginate, and presents the appearance of a short tooth at each side. 



In company with various ants, or in their vicinity at roots of grass, in moss, &e., 

 in marshy places: it does not, however, appear at all certain that this and the 

 preceding are necessarily associated with ants, Wimbledon Common; Merton 

 (Surrey); Shirley Warren, Southampton (in moss in a swamp); Wicken and Ran- 

 worth Fens; New Forest (in Sphagnum) ; Scotland, very rare, Tweed district only. 



VH. limbata, Payk. This species is easily distinguished by the very 

 long terminal joint of the antennae and the somewhat closely punctured 

 hind body ; the colour is pitchy brown or pitchy black with the base 

 and sides of the elytra and the base of the hind body more or less testa- 

 ceous ; antennae rather long, rather strongly and gradually thickened 

 with penultimate joints very transverse, and the last joint as long as the 

 three preceding ; thorax moderately transverse, with sides narrowed in 

 fiont and contracted, slightly in almost a straight line towards base, 

 very finely punctured ; elytra al)out as long as thorax ; hind body with 

 basal segments finely and thickly punctured, apical segments more 

 sparingly, but distinctly, punctured. L. 5 mm. 



Male with the dorsal plate of seventh segment of hind body strongly 

 emarginate in a semicircle, the emargination being very finely denticu- 

 late and ending at each side in a sharp tooth, thorax broadly and dis- 

 tinctly impressed longitudinally. 



In nests q( Formica Jlava unA fusoa, and has also been recorded as associated with 

 F.ftd/oinosa, also found under stones, in moss, &c., near the nests; not uncommon in 

 the south; Loudon district, generally distributed; Hastings; Swannage ; Isle of 

 Wight (Ventnor, Sandown, &c.) ; Bristol; Sherwood Forest; Liverpool; Northum- 

 berluud district, banks of Iithing ; Scctland, very rare, Tweed district only. 



