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VIII. Notes on Indian Ants. By Geoege Alexander 
James Rothnet^ F.E.S. 
[Read March 6th, 1895.] 
The following notes refer to species collected during a 
three months'' tour in India, from October 27th_, 1893, to 
January 27th, 1894, and include an account of short 
visits to Bombay, Poena, Madras, Bangalore, Mysore, 
Calicut, Cochin, Travancore, Madura, Calcutta, Barrack- 
pore, Delhi, Lahore, Bhavnagar, and Baroda. 
I am deeply indebted to Dr. Forel for his wonderful 
patience in examining a vast number of specimens, the 
majority being small, uninteresting species, very difficult 
to determine, and the amount of valuable time spent in 
naming the collection, leaves me quite overwhelmed by 
his great courtesy and kindness. The tour was a rapid 
one, and the season of the year, for Bengal and Upper 
India, unfavourable for collecting ; still, considering the 
extent of the ground covered and that many of the 
localities were probably new to the ant collector, the 
result in novelties (some five species and varieties) was 
disappointing, and speaks highly for the thorough and 
exhaustive manner in which Mr. R. C. Wroughton, the 
author of Our Ants,^' has worked the Indian fauna, 
and also confirms, as Dr. Forel remarked on returning 
the collection, The marked uniformity of the species of 
the continent of India.^^ To make the most of the 
limited time available, I concentrated my attention to 
the following points : — 
1. To find a $ Dorylus, or Lohopelta. 
2. To sound produced by ants, or stridulating ants. 
3. To the length, of residence or attachment of a 
species to a particular spot, as illustrated by the existence, 
in 1893-94, of certain nests or colonies which had been 
well known to me between the years 1872-1886. 
In No. 1, I failed altogether ; in No. 2, though par- 
ticularly favoured by many opportunities of observation, 
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