170 LIST OF A SMALL COLLECTION OF ANTS PIERS 



Accordingly in September, 1920, while again engaged in 

 prospecting and geological work at Pleasantfield, near Fifteen- 

 mile Brook, three miles north-northwest of Middlefield, on the 

 road from Liverpool to Brookfield, Queen's County, he collected, 

 in vials, duplicate sets of some 31 lots of specimens, together 

 with 6 lots from North Brookfield, eleven and a quarter miles 

 further inland and to the north-northwest, in the same county. 



One set was deposited in the Provincial Museum of Nova 

 Scotia on 28th October, 1920 (Ace. No. 4944), and the other 

 set, numbered to agree with the Museum's set, was forwarded 

 on the same day to Prof. Wheeler, who had very kindly con- 

 consented to identify the specimens. There being only one 

 specimen of No. 32 {Myrmica brevinodis), it was sent to Prof. 

 Wheeler, but the species is also represented in No. 27. 



Not long afterward Mr. Prest was taken ill and died at Hali- 

 fax on 25th December, 1920. Prof. Wheeler on 4th January, 

 1921, identified the specimens and sent to me the list of his 

 determinations according to the- numerical designations. 



It is deeply to be regretted that Mr. Prest did not live to 

 further carry on his investigations in this line, as it was his 

 habit to devote his whole energy to anything he undertook. 

 In that case the publication of a list would have awaited until 

 much more material had been gathered, and his own full notes 

 as to habits, abundance, etc., had been incorporated. After his 

 death I was unable to ascertain where those notes were, and we 

 have now only his very brief memoranda, usually as to 

 habitat, which are written on the labels of the specimens. 



In order that the results of his interruped work may be of 

 some use to future students, I have arranged the list of forms in 

 systematic order, and appended the very brief notes which the 

 collector actually attached to each vial of specimens. The 

 names are according to the determinations of Prof. Wheeler, 

 while the numbers refer to the original numbering of the col- 

 lection, and indicate the order in which they were obtained. 



It will be seen that fourteen forms, representing twelve 

 species, are represented in the thirty-seven lots collected; and 

 probably among them will be found a large proportion of the 

 commoner Ants occurring here. A recent list of the Ants of 

 Connecticut, U. S. A., contains sixty-four forms, representing 

 about forty-five species, so that possibly about thirty forms 

 should be found in our more northern region, where fewer 

 kinds are liable to occur. 



