280 BRITISH ANTS. 



which were situated in the ground with very little nest materials 

 built over them, were suggestive of a recent fusca origin, as was 

 also an isolated nest, found by the side of a road at Aviemore, 

 which was partly situated under a large stone, a heap of nest 

 materials being built up on one side, whilst under the stone were 

 galleries such as are constructed by F. fusca 35 . 



The following myrmecophiles have been taken with F. exsecta in 

 Britain : 



Coleoptera : Oxypoda haemorrhoa Sahl., Dinar da hagensi Wasm., 

 Myrmedonia limbata Pk., Drusilla canaliculata F., Notothecta 

 flavipes Gr., N. anceps Er., Homalota analis Gr., Othius myrmeco- 

 philus Kies., and Dendrophilus punctatus Hbst. 



Formicidae : Leptothorax acervorum F. 



Lepidoptera : Amphisbatis incongruella Staint. 



Diptera : Ceratopogon myrmecophilus Egg., and Apiochaeta 

 (=Phora) rata Wood. 



Heteroptera : Ceratocombus coleopteratus Zett. 



Collembola : Cyphodeirus ( = Beckia) albinos Nic. 



Myriapoda : Blanjulus guttulatus Gerv. 



Araneina : Micaria pulicaria Sund. 



Acarina : Laelaps cuneifer Mich. 



Crustacea : Platyartlirus hoffmanseggi Brandt. 



F. sanguinea Latr. 



Formica sanguinea Latreille Ess. Hist. Fourmis France 37 (1798) 1 : Hist. 

 Nat. Fourmis 150 (1802) 2 . [" La fourmi sanguine " Huber Moeurs Fourmis 

 275-288 (1810)] 3 . Formica sanguinea F. Smith Zool. 1 262-264 (1843) 4 . For- 

 mica dominula Nylander Acta. Soc. Sc. Fenn. 2 905 1047 (1846) 5 : 3 26 (1849) 6 . 

 Formica sanguinea Forster Hym. Stud. 1 20 (1850) 7 ; Tischbein Stett. Ent. 

 Zeitg. 12 295-297 (1851) 8 ; Schenck Jahrb. Ver. Naturk. Nassau 8 IP 14 10 

 36-38 11 139 12 145 13 (1852); Mayr Verb. Zool. Bot. Ver. Wien 5 336-338 

 (1855) 14 ; F. Smith Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n.s.) 3 101-103 (1855) 15 : Cat. 

 Brit. Foss. Hym. 6-7 (1858) 16 : Ent. Mo. Mag. 2 29 (1865) 17 : Ent. Ann. 

 1868 93-94 18 : 1871 58 19 ; Forel Denkschr. Schweiz. Ges. Naturw. 26 52 20 

 219 21 261 22 324-330 23 35S-364 24 408 25 (1874) : Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat. 14 

 57-58 (1875) 26 ; Saunders Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880 205-206 27 ; Er. 

 Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 180 (1881 ) 28 ; Lubbock Ants, Bees, and Wasps 

 41-4229 44po (1882) ; Rothney Ent. Mo. Mag. 18 262 (1882) 31 ; Forel Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Belg. 30 139-140 (1886) 32 ; Lubbock Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 

 118 (1888) 33 ; Darwin Origin Species 1 338-342 (1888) 34 ; Wasmann Tijdschr. 

 Entom. 34 46 (1891) 35 : zusam. Nest, gemischt. Kolon. Ameisen 46-52 

 (1891) 36 ; Rothney Ent. Mo. Mag. 28 50 (1892) 37 : 29 67 (1893) 38 ; Dalla 

 Torre Cat. Hym. 7 211 (1893) 39 ; Farren-White Ants' Ways 167-179 40 183 41 

 232-23S 42 (1895); Saunders Hym-Acul. 21 (1896) 43 ; D. Sharp Camb. NH. 

 Ins. 2 149-150 (1899) 44 ; Vic. Hist. Hants. 1 115 (1900) 45 : Worcester 1 87 

 (1901) 46 ; Morice Ent. Mo. Mag. 37 96 (190 1) 47 ; Barnes Ent. Mo. Mag. 38 

 265 (1902) 48 ; Wasmann Verh. Deutsch. Zool. Gesell. 12 100 (1902) 49 : 

 Insektenborse 20 275-276 (1903) 50 : Biol. Centralb. 25 200-210 (1905) 51 ; 

 Wheeler Bull. Amer. Mus. NH. 21 1-16 (1905) 52 ; Vic. Hist. Sussex 1 131 

 (1905) 53 : Berks. 1 76 (1906) 54 ; Escherich Ameise 48 55 134 56 222 57 (1906): 

 Dpnisthorpe Ent, Record 19 254 (1907) 58 : 20 281 (1908) 59 : Trans. Leicester 



