318 THE entomologist's record. 



Heteroptera. — Alyclus calcaratus, L. — I took a larva of this bug- 

 (in which stage it is very like an ant) running on a hot sandy bank in 

 company with Formica fusca in the New Forest. The specimen was so 

 ant-like that, even after I had put it in a tube, Professor T. H. Beare, who 

 was with me, thought it was an ant. I also took it with F. saiufuinea 

 at Woking, and at Niton, Isle of "Wight, in July, in all its stages, 

 running on a path in company with F. fm^ca and Lasitis niger. 



Araneina. — Thyreosthenius biovata, Camb. — 1 have taken this little 

 spider with F. riifa at Woking, and, in October, with Mr. Pool, at 

 Enfield. Mr. Bagnall has taken it in Northumberland. These are 

 new localities for it. I believe it occurs wherever F. rufa is found. 



Fvansia inerens, Camb. — I took five specimens with F. fuaca at 

 Barmouth, in June. Mr. Bagnall has taken it with F. fusca at Win- 

 laton, and Dr. K. Jackson, with the same ant, at Corbridge. I find I 

 took it with the same ant at Hayton Moss, in Cumberland, in 1903, 

 though I have not recorded it before. 



Cryphoeca divisa, Camb. — I this year took five 2 s of this rare 

 spider on one occasion, and several more at other times, with Lasiiis 

 ftdir/inosus, at Wellington College. I once took a ^ with the same ant 

 at Oxshott. Before that only a single specimen, a ? , had occurred at 

 Carlisle, in this country. 



It is probable that all these three species are truly myrmecophilous, 

 the first two undoubtedly are, but the following spiders are, I under- 

 stand, chiefly found in other situations ; still, as they have been found 

 before with ants, and continue to turn up in such places, it seems 

 advisable to record their capture here. 



Phrurolithus fesfivus, C. K. — I took this species with F. sanguinea, 

 and also with Lasius niger, at Woking. I have before taken it with 

 F. rufa and L. fuliginosus at Oxshott, and Father Wasmann records it 

 with L. niger, L. brunneus, and L. fuliginosus. 



Harpactes hombergi, Sep. — I have taken it with L. fidiginosus at 

 Wellington College and Pyrford, it used to occur frequently with the 

 same ant at Oxshott, and Father Wasmann gives the same host. 



Micaria pulicaria, Saund. — I took it in a nest of F. sanguinea at 

 Woking. I found it before with L. niger at Mickleham, to which ant 

 it bears a strong superficial resemblance. 



Microneta innotabilis, Camb., and M. viaria, Blk. — Both taken with 

 L. fuligitiosus at Wellington College. I took these species before with 

 both this ant and F. rufa at Oxshott. 



HaJinia helvola, E. S. — Taken with L. fuliginosus at Wellington 

 College, also recorded from ants' nests by Wasmann. 



T/ieridium riparium, Blk. ■ — • Taken twice with F. sanguinea at 

 Woking. "With L. niger" (von Hasselt). "Hunts Myrmica 

 laevinodis " (Henking). Blackwall writes " it feeds on ants." 



Lepidoptera. — Polyommatus corydon. — Mr. A. L. Ray ward records 

 (in the Entomologist, 1906, p. 197) that, in June last, he found the larv^ 

 of this butterfly on Hippocrepis comosa, at Reigate, and that they nearly 

 all had ants [Lasius fiavus) upon them. He found that the ants stroked 

 the gland on the 7th abdominal segment, and sucked the fluid that 

 exuded from it. 



Polyommatus bellargus. — Mr. Eayward subsequently discovered at 

 Folkestone (loc. cit., p. 219) the larvae of bellargus attended by Lasius 



