New Nests of Ants by Myrmecophilous Coleoptcra. 421 



Champion took a specimen running across a path at 

 Bonchurch, I. of W., in July. (E. M. M., 1887, p. 137.) 



Harwood recorded the capture of a specimen in dead 

 leaves near Colchester during the early part of the year. 

 (E. M. M., 1898, p. 64.) 



A specimen is recorded running on a chalky pathway. 

 (Vic. " Hist. Herts., 1902," p. 90.) 



J. H. Keys took a specimen on his collar at South Brent 

 in May 1903. 



Walker records one by sweeping at Headington Wick 

 Copse in June (" 2nd Oxford List, 1907," p. 53), and another 

 in a sand-pit in the New Forest in July. (E. M. M., 1907, 

 p. 206.) 



E. A. Butler swept a specimen in August at Luccombe, 

 in the I. of Wight. 



Forel has shown that when Formica sanguinea and 

 Polyergus rufesccns make slave raids on Formica fusca, 

 they not only carry off the cocoons of the latter, but also 

 the larvae of the Atemeles. 



Atemeles paradoxus, Gr. 



Primary hosts. — Myrmica ruginodis, Nyl., laevinodis, 

 Nyl., and scahrinodis, Nyl. 



Secondary hosts. — Formica rufibarbis, F., and var. fusco- 

 rufiharbis, For. 



Fowler took a specimen on the cliffs near Sandown, 

 being carried by an ant much smaller than itself, in April. 

 (E. M. M., 1884, XXI, p. 18.) The ant was, I believe, Lasius 

 nigcr. 



H. W. Bates recorded this beetle with Formica Jiava at 

 Sheet Hedges Wood in Leicestershire. (" Zool, 1944," p. 

 700.) The beetle was, howler, emarginatus, and the ants 

 were most probably Myrmicas. 



Wasmann remarks that this and the last species are 

 often found at large, running and flying. 



Myrmedonia funesta, Gr. 



Normal host. — Lasius fuliginosus, Ltr. 



A specimen was taken in a fungus in Birch Wood by 

 Curtis on May 6th, 1821. (" Zool. 1855," p. 4603.) 



One captured by Linnell on Red Hill Common in 1855. 

 (" Reigate List, 1898," p. 12.) 



