HONEY ANTS. 



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the Mvrinecoc\sti, whose habits have been more thoroughly studied. 

 In conclusion, I will describe a few aberrant Myrmicine ants that have 

 been regarded as honey ants, and close with a few general remarks 

 on the significance of the replete habit among the Camponotinae and 

 Dolichoderinae. 



i. Mclophorus bogoti and c owlet. The genus Melophorns was 

 based by Lubbock in 1884 on worker specimens of M. bay of i from cen- 



Fin. 215. Garden of the Gods near Manitou, Colorado: looking north: showing 

 in the foreground the rocky ridges on which Myrinecocystus horti-deorum nests. 

 (Original.) 



tral or western Australia ("21 S. Lat."). He transposed the generic 

 and specific diagnoses that had been written out for him by Forel, but 

 the latter rectified the blunder a few years later (18860?). M. bagoti 

 is of a rich ferruginous red color and has polymorphic workers. The 

 length of the smaller ones has not been recorded, but the larger measure 

 13-16 mm. In the latter the gaster is distended somewhat as in the 

 Prcnolepis repletes, and is, as Forel has stated, far from attaining the 

 amplitude of Myrmecocystus. The insect is undoubtedly able to walk 

 about and in all probability does not hang from the roof of its galleries 

 During the summer of 1907 Professor Forel kindly gave me a replete 



