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remarked that no one living appeared to have taken (^ (^ in 

 Britain. There were none in the British Museum or Oxford 

 Museum collection, but one or two in the Saunders and Chitty 

 collections. Also 3 S , 9 ? > ^^^ ^ ^ of Formicoxenus nifi- 

 duliis, taken in a nest of F. rnfa at Weybridge. Mr. Bagnall 

 had recorded the $ first for Britain in 1906 from Corbridge-on- 

 Tyne. Subsequently Arnold and Hamm took the species in the 

 Kew Forest in 1909. Adlerz discovered and described the $^ 

 which is wingless, in 1884. There is a specimen, however, in 

 the Rothney Collection at Oxford, taken by Dr. Power in 1864, 

 standing under the name of Stenamma westiooodi, 5 . He 

 remarked that the food was not known, but that he had 

 started a small colony in an observation nest, and found they 

 would eat honey and devoured the larvae of Lepiotlwrax acer- 

 vorum, which came from the same nest. Also i^ ^, V ? , a-nd 

 5 5 of Leptothorax tuhero-affi^iis, a form new to Britain, taken 

 in some numbers in the New Forest by Mr. Crawley and 

 himself in July. 



Mr. DoNiSTHORPE much regretted that his friend Mr. Crawley 

 was not present to exhibit Anergates, but feared he was ill. 



He then showed a cj, and winged and dealated $ $ of Ane)-- 

 gates afrahdus, which had been found in the New Forest in 

 July by Mr. Crawley and himself, the former having found 

 the first specimens. He gave a short account of the habits of 

 this interesting ant, which lives in the nests of Tetramoriitm 

 caespitum. 



Celastrina argiolus on a new Food-plant. — Mr. Hy. J. 

 Turner exhibited, on behalf of the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, 

 a long series of bred Celastrina argiolus. He stated that 

 the larvae had occurred each year for some time past in the 

 garden at Mucking, feeding on Portugal laurel, attacking the 

 flower buds in the early summer. The whole of the specimens 

 were unusually large, and the females had the black border on 

 the fore-wings, in most of the specimens, very considerably 

 developed and of a deep black. Many of the females had a 

 strong development of whitey-blue on the basal half of the 

 costal area, and thei'e was a tendency to develop a whitish 

 suifusion in the discal area of the fore-wing. In one specimen 

 this latter feature had developed into a bluish-white discal 



