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RHYNCHOPHORA. 
" Araeocerus fasciculatus, De Geer. With a dried plant from 
Szemao. Ado said to attack coffee and cacao. (See Lucas in 
Ann. Soc. Ent. France," 1861, 399.) 
Rhynchites aequatus, L. On hawthorn. 
Phyllobius pyri, L. On hawthorn. 
P. maculicornis, Germ. On hawthorn. 
Sitones lineatus, L, “ Pea-weevil.” 
Xyleborus morigerus, Blandford. “Dendrobium beetle.” (See 
Gard. Chron. [3], xxiv. (1898), p. 388, fig. 112.) 
HYMENOPTERA. 
FORMICIDAE. (Ants.) 
By Lt.-Col. C. T. Bingham. 
Ants as a class greatly affect plants, either for food or shelter. 
Many species are truly ar rampe making their nests among the 
leaves of trees or in hollow the trunk or branches. Others 
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carnivores. wander more or less over trees and plants in "their 
search for food. It is not therefore voile that numerous 
species have been transported from their natural habitat with 
living plants and are to be found in the plant houses and conser- 
inent myrmecologist, has published one such list of ants as an 
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useum, Hambu g (© Mittheilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen 
Museum,” xviii., 1901, pp. 78-82). 
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appended. The number so far has been small, but all the sub-, 
— of the "Formicidae, with the exception of the Dorylinae, 
represented. 
Ponerinz, 
-Diacamma v vagans, Smith, Tourn: Linn, Soc. Pil: iv. (mox: 
suppl., p. 103. * Received jn Ward's case from J 
1895." Found in various paris of Ee Burma, and Ceylon, 
ranging into. the Malayan subregion. — faa round Calcutta 
Identified by Mr. W. F. Kirby. 
