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Wroughton's Fundbericht (vom 22/7. 98) lautet: Just before 

 leaving India I paid a visit, to the Nilgiri Hills in the Madras 

 Presidency and made a ratber large collection of ants there, and 

 among them I found a myrmecophil living with Lobopella, a thiDg, 

 which has never happened to me before and which astonished me; 

 for they are such bloodthirsty beasts and such inveterate insect 

 hunters and eaters, that I would not have believed that they would 

 tolerate a „guest" living with them. However at Conoor in almost 

 every nest of Lobopella diminuta I found a few, and this is all the 

 more stränge, because 1 have inspected hundreds of colonies of this 

 ant in other parts of India without finding any trace of myrmeco- 

 phil except of course „fish insects" (Lepismidae), which are to be 

 found in or about every ants nest. The present beast I found 

 not only in the nest (?) but also travelling along the columns of 

 Lobopella on the hunting path. I have put a quaere after the word 

 „nest", for I am not sure what a nest of Lobopella is like and 

 almost believe that what look like nests are often only temporary 

 resting places. The myrmecophil is a most active little beast, 

 very difficult to catch, and when frightened throws up its abdomen 

 over its back like Cremastogasler" . 



Thoriclidae. 

 Thorictus Heimi n. sp. (Taf. II, Fig. 2). 



Elongafus, cylindricus, rufocastaneus, nitidus, fulvopabescens et 

 praeterea setis longis flavis in thorace et elytris abunde vestitus. 

 Caput clypeo paullo tantum emarginato. Thorax transverso-quadra- 

 tus, longitndine fere duplo latior, laleribus paullo rotundatis, apice 

 haud angustior quam basi, parce subtiliter pnnctalus, absque foveis 

 basalibus, linea transversa in angulis postieis impressa, angulis 

 ipsis breviter ßavopenicillatis. Elytra thorace vix angustior a et 

 duplo longiora, basi int er humeros angusle transversim impresso, 

 apice sensim angustata, seriatim ßaoopilosa. — Long. 1,5 mill. 



In Reitter's Tabellen IV unter 10a gehörig. Eine kleine, 

 schmale Art, durch das quer rechteckige Halsschild und die sehr 

 langen, gelben Wimpern an Halsschild und Fld. ausgezeichnet; an 

 ersterem stehen sie besonders am Rande, an letzteren auf der ganzen 

 Oberfläche, in regelmäfsigen Längsreihen geordnet. Aufserdem ist 

 noch eine kurze gelbe Grundbehaarung vorhanden, die jedoch, wie 

 die Wimperreihen auf den Fld., nur an frischen Stücken gut er- 

 erbalten ist. Das Halsschild ist ohne Basaleindrücke, nach vorn 

 und binton gleichmäfsig schwach verengt, mit einem kurzen, tiefen 



