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PROCEEDINGS ral 
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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
FourtH SERIES 
Vor tl, Proll No: 14 pp.) 259-297 June 16, 1919 
EXPEDITION OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF 
SCIENCES TO THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, 
1905-1906 
XIV 
THE ANTS OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS! 
BY 
WILLIAM MortTON WHEELER 
Bussey Institution for Research in Applied Biology 
Since the memorable voyage of the “Beagle” in 1835, more 
than a dozen biological expeditions have explored the Gal- 
apagos Islands, but none of the collectors, with a single 
exception, has bestowed more than the most casual attention 
on the ants, so that our knowledge of these insects and their 
distribution has been too fragmentary to have any weight in 
the famous controversy concerning the origin of the archi- 
pelago and its fauna. In 1877 Frederick Smith’ described 
three species of Camponotus from Charles Island, two (C. 
planus and macilentus) taken by Darwin on the voyage of the 
“Beagle” and one (C. senex) taken by Cookson on the voyage 
1 Contributions from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, 
Harvard University, No. 137. 
2 Smith, Frederick. Hymenoptera and Diptera in “Account of the Zoological Col- 
lection made during the visit of H. M. S. ‘Peterel’ to the Galapagos Islands.” Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1877, pp. 82-84 
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