March, 1914.] Dow: John Abbot. 65 



Long Island, but none could be discovered among the pines and oaks 

 on the slopes about Deep Pond out on the level country to the south 

 of Wading River. The ants invariably had their nests in protected 

 places on the hills, where the ground was somewhat barren, such as 

 openings in the woods with sheltering trees and thickets to the north. 

 On these hills grow a few pitch pines and red cedars, but the trees are 

 nearly all deciduous, and the environment does not suggest the sites 

 commonly selected for nest building by Atta scptentrionalis at Lake- 

 hurst and elsewhere in the pine barrens of New Jersey. 



The finding of the fungus-growing ant at Wading River, N. Y., 

 extends its known range considerably, and adds one more species to 

 the fauna of the state. While the nearest reported colonies are in 

 New Jersey about one hundred miles to the southwest, it may be safely 

 predicted that some connecting colonies will be found in the future. 



JOHN ABBOT, OF GEORGIA. 



By Robert Percy Dow, 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



When John Francillon, silversmith, of the Strand, London, was 

 engaged in making a notable collection of insects, mostly lepidoptera, 

 for twenty years or more from about 1790, and, as was customary 

 among the leading collectors, made a business of selling his duplicates, 

 he offered among other things many unusually fine specimens from 

 the " Province of Georgia, in North America." These, if they were 

 lepidoptera or of other prominently winged orders, were pinned and 

 expanded with a degree of skill which commanded the admiration 

 of the ablest of the Aurelians, by which name the English butterfly 

 collector has been known since a number of them formed the Au- 

 relian Club, with Moses Harris at the Swan Tavern in 1745.^ Geor- 

 gia was then far more inaccessible to an Englishman than Java or 

 Cape of Good Hope. Moreover, the prices were very reasonable — 



1 The original Moses Harris is not to be confused with his famous nephew 

 of the same name, the copper-plate engraver, who published the Aurelian and 

 other works, drew the plates for Drury's masterpiece, and was secretary of the 

 second Aurelian Club, 1762-66. 



