BY THE AUTHOR. XXili 
The title I have given to these re- 
searches is not to be taken in its fullest 
extent, since I have not studied the man- 
ners of a// the indigenous ants. I know 
twenty-three species of which I have not 
equally learned the history; but if the 
facts I have noticed, excite the attention 
of Naturalists, and induce them to fill up 
the outline I now lay before them, it will 
bethe sweetest recompense forthe labours 
to which I have been devoted. 
