722 HONEY-MAKING ANT OF TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO. 
of labor now resulting from duplicate observations and repetitions 
in publication : collateral to this, the publication each year of a brief 
report containing such important advances made in the science, 
both at home and abroad as should be made known to the farmers. 
4, Accurate calendars to be prepared of the appearance, disap- 
pearance and other phenomena of the history of the most injurious 
insects in different parts of the country. 
5. Contrivance of apparatus on a large scale, by which, with 
the least expenditure of material and labor, the nocturnal species 
may be attracted by light, and dropped into a vessel containing 
cyanide of potassium or other poisonous substance. 
6. Experiments on the effects of poisons upon the species, the 
habits of which permit the wholesale application of such means of 
' destruction: -especially adapted to nocturnal lepidoptera by the 
process known as sugaring for moths. 
7. Careful study of epidemic diseases of insects, especially 
those of a fungoid nature: and experiments on the most effective 
means of introducing and communicating such diseases at pleasure. 
8. The preparation by our best instructed entomologists work- 
ing in concert, of one or more elementary books suitable for use 
in schools, giving in a compendious form the general principles of 
the science, and indications for applying the knowledge to prac- 
tical results. 
9. The appointment in agricultural colleges of competent pro- 
fessors of entomology, who have been trained in a scientific school, 
to fit them for the duty of instruction. 
10. The establishment of the means of compensation for com- 
pulsory or voluntary destruction of crops infected by formidable 
pests, as above mentioned. 
NOTES ON THE HONEY-MAKING ANT OF TEXAS 
ND NEW MEXICO.* 
BY HENRY EDWARDS. 
Tue natural history of this very curious ant (Myrmecocystus 
Mexicanus Westwood) is so little known, that the preservation of 
* Read before the California Academy of Sciences. 
