Pf by. 
The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
IL. Formica minima rubra. Fafure, Abbeville, p. 256. Uffacuve. Ejufd. ib. 
P- 255. Petites Fourmies rouges, Tertre. P. 344 
This is much the fame with the common red Ant of Exrope, only 
{maller. 
They live and neftle in Woods by the Roots of Trees, and bring up 
the Filth, Earth, ec. out of their Habitations as thofe of Ewrope. — 
Thefe Ants make a Sort of Cochineel, Abbeville, 
IL. Formica major rubra. An Cangheave, Abbeville, p. 2562 
This is much the fame with the Precedent, only much larger. 
They hurt the Inhabitants, Abbeville. 
There are great and red Ants in Erhiopia that do bite, and are fo many, 
that they do not let the Inhabitants fleep. Bermudez, Purchas, p. 1199. 
AV. Formica major nigra: 
This isthe fame with the foregoing large red Ant, only fomething 
{mallers 
NV. Formica minor nigerrima fylvatica, Abdomine triangalari. 
This is as black as Jet, and hath a triangular Abdomen. 
It is found in the Woods. 
ivi. Formica fufca minima, antennis longiffimis. Little Ants, S#ith’s Vira 
ginia. p. 149. Ants very little and black, Ovsed. Summ. apud Eden, p. 200. 
Ants of Linfchat, Tagon, p. 63. 
This is of a dark brown Colour, very fmall, and hath two very long 
Antenne. 
They devour every thing; I attempted to preferve the Skins and Fea- 
thers of Humming Birds, and was oblig’d, to keep them from thefe Ants 
by hanging them at the End ofa String froma Pully faften’d in the Cieling 
and yet they would find the Way by the Cieling to come at and deftroy 
them. 
I have feen them when one of thefe travelling about hath founda dead 
Cockroch, he hath gone back to his Hole from whence came great Num- 
bers to it, and having fome pull’d, fome fhov’d it towards the Mouth 
of their Hole, there they disjointed it to carry it in by piece-Meal, what 
would not go whole. 
They earneftly covet Sugar. Sometimes Ants eat into Sugar Canes 
and hatch their young in them. 
In New-Englana, tor preventing the Ants doing Mifchief to their Figs, 
the Inhabitants anoint their Frame Bottoms with Tar. 
They make Hillocks in the Fields of a very hard Confiftence, as high as 
a Man, or their Holes are under Ground far from Woods, to avoid the 
Ant-Bears, Oviedo, 
Ant-hillsin Gambra are twenty Foot high. Sobfon, p. 42: 
Ants do much Hurt to the ca Breet cee ae 
White Ants in Senega, make Houfes like Ovens, Aluife de Cadamoffo. p. 
112. ed. lat, p. 28. 
In the Fields about Baezos Ayres, formerly there were many Vineyards 
planted by the firft Spanifh Inhabitants, which are now ruin’d by the great 
Ants which eat the Fruit before it was ripe, now there are only fome Vines 
whole Feet are defended by Water. Feuille. p. 246. Ants 
