INTRODUCTION. 
My design in this Introduction, is to 
take a rapid review of the facts collected 
by several writers relative to the History 
of Ants. The descriptive part, better 
known than that which refers to their 
manners and habits, still presents some 
doubts which I shall attempt to remove. 
De Geer, among the ancient, Fabricius 
and Latreille among the modern natural- 
ists, are those to whom I shall have re- 
course for their classification. 
Systematic authors have placed Ants 
in the class of insects with four naked 
wings— with Bees, Wasps, Andrenx, &c. 
from which they differ essentially in the 
composition of their families, where we 
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