134 BRITISH ANTS. 



The following myrmecophiles have been captured with M. 

 sabuleti in Britain : 



Coleoptera : Atemeles emarginatus Pk. ; and Lamprinus saginatus 

 Gr. 



Lepidoptera : Dr. Chapman has taken the larva of the " Blue 

 Butterfly " (Lycaena arion L.) in the nest of this variety in North 

 Devon, and has demonstrated that it devours the ants' larvae. 



Collembola : Cyphodeirus ( = Beckia) albinos Nic. 



Araneina : Harpactes hombergi Sep. 



Crustacea : Platyartlirus hoffmanseggi Brandt. 



Myrmica lobicornis Nyl. 



Myrmica lobicornis Nylander Acta. Soc. Sc. Fenn. 2 932 1 1052 2 (1846) : 

 3 31 (1849) 3 ; Schenck Jahr. Ver. Naturk. Nassau 8 82 (1852) 4 . Myrmica, 

 denticornis Curtis Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 21 215 (1854) 5 ; F. Smith Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond. (n.s.) 3 120 (1855) 6 . Myrmica lobicornis F. Smith Cat. Brit. 

 Foss. Hym. 25 (1858) 7 : Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n.s.) 4 279 (1858) 8 : Ent. 

 Ann. 1860 92 9 ; Meinert Kong. Danske. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift. 5 327 (1861) 10 ; 

 F. Smith Ent. Mo. Mag. 2 29 (1865) 11 : Ent. Ann. 1866 128 12 ; Bold Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. 2 234 (1866) 13 ; F. Smith Entom. 3 197 (1866) 14 : Ent. Ann. 

 1868 94 15 . Myrmica rubra race lobicornis Forel Denkschr. Schweiz. Ges. 

 Naturw. 26 77-79 16 226 17 403 18 (1874). Myrmica lobicornis B. Cooke Nat. 5 

 73 (1879) 19 ; Saunders Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880 216 20 ; Er. Andre Spec. 

 Hym. Europe 2 318 (1881 ) 21 . Myrmica nodicornis Chappell Young Nat. 7 58 

 (1886) 22 . Myrmica lobicornis Bridgman Trans. Norf. Norwich Nat. Soc. 

 4394(1886) 23 : 690 (1889) 24 ; Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 111 (1893) 25 ; Farren- 

 White Ants' Ways 241 (1895) 26 . Myrmica rubra race lobicornis Freke Irish 

 Nat. 5 40 (1896) 27 ; Saunders Hym-Acul. 40 (1896) 28 ; Morley Hym. Suffolk 

 1 2 (1899) 29 ; Vic. Hist. Cumberland 1 103 (1901) 30 ; Vic. Hist. Essex 1 102 

 (1903) 31 ; Vic. Hist. Devon 1 188 (1906) 32 . Myrmica lobicornis Escherich 

 217 (1906) 33 ; Donisthorpe Trans. Leicester Lit-Phil. Soc. 12 228 (1908) 34 . 

 Myrmica scabrinodis lobicornis Emery Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1908 179 35 . 

 Myrmica lobicornis Nyl. var. arduennae Bondroit Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 55 

 12 (191 1) 36 . Myrmica lobicornis Donisthorpe Ent. Rec. 23 11 (191 1) 37 : 

 Entom. 44 390 (1911) 38 : Ent. Rec. 24 5 (1912) 39 ; Evans Scot. Nat. 1912 

 108 40 ; Hallett Trans. Cardiff. Nat. Soc. 45 2 (1913) 41 ; Donisthorpe Ent. 

 Rec. 25 46-47 (1913) 42 . 



^ Lighter or darker brown-red, head and gaster, and sometimes the whole 

 body blackish brown ; antennae and legs lighter. 



1. Antenna of Myrmica lobicornis 



2. The same in profile. 



Head : frontal area more or less longitudinally striate, sometimes shining 

 and only shagreened ; antennae with scape sharply bent at the base, and 

 furnished above at the bend with a strong transverse ridge, which, when seen 

 in profile, has the appearance of a spine ; club of antennae three- jointed. 



