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857 
Texas, Blake, /. c. iii. ; M. clotho, leda, chiron, p. 72, creon, p. 73, admetus 
(? = waco, Blake, $ ), albipilosa, grandiceps, p. 74, electra, p. 75, Texas, 
t^?. /. c. iv. ; J/, pustulata, {nsidiator, ardescens, and jjungens^ F. Smith, 
Tr. E. Soc. 1873, p. 182, Japan; M. suavis, p. 341, pi. xiv. fig. 8, Mombas 
and Cape of G-ood Hope, porphyrea, p. 437, See Jipe, Gerstiicker, I. c. : 
spp. nn. 
Agama mendica, Nevada, impetnalis and nokomis, p. 260, Texas, danaus 
and melicausa, p. 261, tapajos, p. 262, Texas, triangidaris, Nevada, ^ja^ 
lida, hyalina, and belfragii, p. 263, Texas, alcanor, Arizona, Blake, 1. c. 
iii.; A. aulus, p. 75, minuta,juxta [!], attenuata, p. 76, Texas, ^VZ. /. c. iv. 
spp. nn. 
DoEYLIDiE. 
Dorylus. Afi&nities fully discussed by G-erstacker in V. d. Decken's 
Reisen, iii. pt. 2, pp. 347-357. 
Labidus nigrescens, p. 194, minor, p. 195, spp. nn., E. T. Cresson, Tr. 
Am. Ent. Soc. iv. Texas. 
Iswara fasciata, sp. n., F. Smith, Ann. N. H. (4) xii. p. 252, Scind. 
FoEMICIDiE. 
J. Traherne Moggridge, in " Harvesting Ants and Trap-door 
Spiders" (London : 1873, pt. i. ; pp. 1-69, pis. i.-vi.), after recapitulating 
biblical and classical notices of the habit of storing grain by ants, usually 
considered by modern authors to be attributed to those insects in error 
(the grain being thought to be represented by their pupge), proves from 
his own observations at Mentone the possession of such a habit by A tta 
barbara, A. structor, and Phidole megacephala, and mentions other species 
(stated to be 19 in number, at p. 59, but which, as named, are only 9, viz., 
the 3 above-named and Myrmica barbata, (Ecodoma cephalotes, providens, 
and diffusa, Atta rufa, and Pseudomyrma rufinigra) in which a similar 
custom prevails. Other species are elsewhere noted as occasionally carry- 
ing seeds. Rejected portions of seeds, &c., are heaped outside the nests 
(pi. i. a). Granaries are described and figured, with galleries, pis. ii.-vi. d. 
and woodcuts. Seeds in the granaries do not germinate, though they 
readily do so when taken out and sown. The ants probably allow seeds 
to be softened by damp, and the young sprout or radicle is certainly 
gnawed off (see pi. vi.) Nests are noted as designedly constructed by ants 
near a cornchandler's shop and close to a bird's-cage. The ants work by 
night, and combats of long duration occur between rival colonies, 
originating in attempts to plunder the stores. The probable influence 
of this storing habit on dessemination of plants is discussed. In an 
appendix, 16 species of ants observed on the Riviera are briefly described, 
and instructions as to collecting and studying the Foruiicidm are given. 
The observations of Jerdon, Buchanan, White, and Horn (chiefly on East 
Indian species) are also reproduced. In a posthumous supplement (1874: 
but continuing the pagination of the original work, and partly issued 
with it), the author, pp. 157-179, records the fact of Atta barbara and 
structor storing grain at Cadenabbia, Lake Como, and Montpellier, and 
