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pages of text, giving descriptions of species, a glossary, and 
indices; the second volume contains one hundred and fifty- 
seven plates, representing over two thousand colored figures. 
The whole work embraces nearly thirteen hundred species 
The price (ten dollars) is remarkably low, when we consider thè 
expensiveness of the colored plates. The work may be obtained 
of the author at Bethlehem, Pa. 
ENTOMOLOGY." 
Singular Adaptation in Nest-Making by an Ant, Cremast- 
gaster lineolata? Say.—A month ago I received an ant’s nest, sent 
by Assistant Engineer Henry A. Brown to General W. G. Lewis, 
of Goldsboro’, N.C. The nest was built several feet from the 
ground on a bush, in the marshes bordering Broad Creek, yet 
County, N: C: ie. 
This ant usually nests “ under stones or underneath and within 
the decayed matter of old logs and stumps. This material 1$ 
sometimes prepared by the ant as a paper-like pulp, and yet 
into cells and chambers, which are attached to the surface of the 
ogs.”3 , ) 
. This nest is about eighteen inches Jong by twelve inches" 
circumference at greatest diameter. I made a longitudinal sf 
tion of it, and had a photograph taken, so as to represent 9% 
the external form and internal structure. The ants were 
the nest when I received it. They were chloroformed before 
- adults, pupe,and larve. They were collected in a mass DN = 
the chambers within a space four inches in length of the me 
This space is about two-thirds the distance from the lower it 
The material composing the ‘cells in this space is lighter B* 
than the other internal parts. It appeared also in the photog! it 
as can be seen by looking at the right-hand figure. Probably" 
will be visible $ the photoengravure. i 
ie material used in making the nest seems to be Et. 
used by the ant in making its hest under stones, etc. , Bes B 
woody pulp, a microscopic examination seems to oe 
Some portions of dried grass. The nest is supported pare 
branches of the bush; a vine and some stalks of marsh-g" gil 
fastened in it. Upon the outside the material is of a light 1 
color, much like that of the nest of the white-faced hom ply 
the interior it is darker, in some places almost black. 
the high tides causing the creek to overflow forced the a 
build their nest above the high-water mark instead of W% 
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2 Nive communications, books for notice, etc., should be ig Riley. 
3 Tati determined for me through the kindness of Prof. C. V 
s Report on Cotton Insects, 1879, p. 188 ; 
