270 
COLEOPTERA. 
are not aware of any detailed information as to the species of ants 
which visit each. A small number of Podurich? and Lepismidse 
are also recorded as being found as guests . • ants’ nests. We 
have left the Coleoptera to the last, as they form the greater 
number of the recorded species. The following families are enumerated 
as having more than ten Myrmecophilous or Termitophilous species 
Myrmecophilous 
Termitophilous. 
Staphylinidae 
263 
59 
Pselaphidae 
113 
5 
Clavigeridse 
89 
0 
Paussidse 
169 
0 
Scvdmgenidse 
32 
0 
Silphid 3e 
35 
1 
Trichopterygidee 
14 
0 
Lathridiidse 
30 
1 
Thorictidae 
40 
0 
Histeridse 
128 
7 
Scarabseidse 
17 
6 
Below is a list of eleven species more or less definitely ascertained 
to b Myrmecophilous in India ; Wassmann includes manv others which, 
from structural characters, he assumes are myrmecophilous, especially 
Pam fids. 
Clm leridce 
Pau sidce 
Colydiidce 
Scarabwidce 
Pselaphidce 
Claviger Hageni , Motsch. 
Mastiger abruptus , Motsch. 
Merismoderus Bensoni, Westw. 
Paussus Fichteli, Don. 
Paussus soleatus, Wasm. 
Paussus suavis , Wasm. 
Paussus Wroughtoni, Wasm. 
Paramellon sociale, Waterh. 
Chcetopisthes fulvus, Westw. 
„ simplicipes, Reiche. 
Aulacophora sp. 
East Indies. 
'Calcutta. 
with b. 1: ants, Ben- 
gal. 
Black ants ip, Pheidole). 
Pheidole Wroughtoni, 
For. 
Pheidole latinoda , Rag. 
Pheidole Wroughtoni , For. 
In ants 5 nests. 
In Termites 5 nests. 
,, ,, ,, 
}? ?? 
On the analogy of other countries it is probable that there are abun¬ 
dant- myrmecophilous and termitophilous insects in India and we re¬ 
produce the list above as a guide to the student for what he may expect 
to find. 
In a later paper (Deutsche Ent, Zeitung, 1899, I, p. 145), Wass¬ 
mann describes the termitophilous insects found in the nests of the com¬ 
mon white ant, Termes obesus , Ramb , at Ahmednagar by Father Heim. 
They are four Staphylinids, Termitodiscus Heimi, Myrmedonia widens , 
Myrmedonia Heimi, Myrmedonia sculpticollis : and two Aphodiine 
