Ixviii The Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 
Memorias y Revista de la Sociedad Cientifica, ‘Antonio Alzate,’ 
Tomo VII., Nos. 7 and 8, 9 and 10. 
The Mountain Club Annual, Capetown, January, 1894. 
Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 283 and 284. 
Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Ouest de la 
France, Tome IV., Part 1, 1894. 
Memoirs and Proceedings of Manchester Literary and Philosophical 
Society, Vol. VIII., No. 2. 
Revista del Museo de la Plata, Tomo IV. 
Actes de la Société Scientifique du Chili, Tome III., Part 3. 
Boletin de la Sociedad Geografica de Lima, Tomo III. 
Meteorological Observations made at Adelaide Observatory, etc., 
1886-87. 
Transactions of Canadian Institute, Vol. IV., Part 1. 
Seventh Annual Report of Canadian Institute, 1893-94. 
Mr. TRIMEN exhibited some ants, of the family Formicide, received 
from Mr. J. M. Hutchinson, of Estcourt, Natal, who wrote that they 
had been found in a nest of ‘ white ants’ (Termites). 
The ants consisted of not only a few females whose wings had 
dropped off, and two sizes of workers, but also of about a dozen speci- 
mens in general structure and size agreeing with the large workers, but 
with the abdomen enormously distended into a semi-transparent globe, 
containing a sweet liquid. 
There could be no doubt that these swollen honey-bearers stood in 
the same relation to the rest of their community as the famous honey- 
ants (first recorded from Mexico in 1832) to the species named Myrme- 
cocystus melliger. The latter, originally described by Dr. de Llave, in a 
Mexican journal, has received much attention subsequently from Wes- 
mael, Lucas and Professor Forel; but for the study and observation of the 
living insects we are indebted to the Rev. Dr. McCook, who discovered 
and investigated on the spot a closely-related form, Myrmecocystus hortus- 
deorum, in South Colorado, and published an admirable and most elabo- 
rate account of his researches in the Proceedings of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1881. 
In 1880, Sir J. Lubbock described and figured (Journ. Linn. Soe. 
Lond., Vol. XV., p. 185, pl. 8) a similarly swollen form of worker ant 
from Adelaide, South Australia, naming it Camponotus injlatus. 
Camponotus belongs to the same family and sub-family of ants as 
Myrmecocystus ; but the honey-ant now brought to notice from Natal is 
apparently one of the sub-family Attide, Mr. Peringuey being disposed 
to place it provisionally in the genus Phevdole. 
It is hoped that more particulars respecting this interesting species, 
and also specimens of the winged male and female, may be received 
