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by Wasmann in Dutch Limburg. He also took one at 

 Exaeten moving with L. fuUginosus to a new nest. 



G. R. Waterhouse took it at Sydenham in the spring of 

 1856 away from ants. 



Champion records it on the wing at Woking in June. 

 (E. M. M., 1906, p. 255.) 



Myrmedonia laticollis, Mark. 



Normal host. — Lasius fuUginosus, Ltr. 



Wasmann has found it with L. hrunneus in a tree with 

 other guests of L. fuUginosus. 



Champion records it on the wing at Woking in June. 

 (E. M. M., 1906, p. 255.) 



I have taken the larvae in plenty in a nest of L. fuUgi- 

 nosus at Wellington Colleo^e, and have bred the beetle in 

 numbers in my observation nest of that ant. 



Wasmann records tliat he has seen various species of 

 Myrmedonia flying in some numbers. 



Notothecta favipes, Gr. 



Normal hosts. — Formica rufa, L., ^x\^ ipratensis, De G. 



A single specimen was taken by Wasmann with F. 

 sangidnea in May in Dutch Limburg. I took a specimen 

 on the wing at Budleigh Salterton on January 22nd, 1896, 

 it being a very warm, sunny day ; and swept another io 

 Darenth Wood on June 18th, 19U8. 



I have bred it in my F. rufa observation nest, and have 

 shown it protects itself when attacked. 



Notothecta confnsa, Mark. 



Normal host. — Lasius fuUginosus, Ltr. 



I took a single specimen with F. rufa at Oxshott. (" Ent. 

 Rec, 1905," p. 272.) These two species belong to the 

 indifferently treated lodgers. 



Quedius hrevis, Er. 



Normal hosts. — Formica rufa, L., and Lasius fuUginosus, 

 Ltr. 



A single specimen was taken in a nest oi F. sanguinea at 

 Woking by Champion (E. M. M. 1906, p. 255), and another 

 with the same ant by H. W. Ellis at Bewdiey. (" Ent. Rec, 

 1908," p. 57.) 



Tuck took it in bees' nests at Tostock in 1896. (" Suffolk 



