FORMICID.E. 
Ins. 109 
McCook, II. C. The Shining Slavemakcr. Notes on the Architecture 
and Habits of the American Slave-making Ant, Polyergus lucidUs. 
P. Ac. Philad. 1880, pp. 37G-384, pi. xix. 
This paper does not admit of abridgment, but its general nature is 
sufficiently explained by the title. 
Mayk, G-. Die Ameissn Turkestan’s, gesammelt von A. Fedtschenko. 
Tijdschr. Ent. xxiii. pp. 17-40. 
The writer discusses the relations of this fauna to others, full lists 
being given of the ants of Siberia, Persia, and the Caucasian district. 
The ants of Turkistan are generally of pale colour, and frequently 
exhibit transitional forms between two species. 
Captures of Formicidee in Calabria ; Emery & Cavanna, Bull. Ent. Ital. 
xii. pp. 123-126. 
List of Formicidai captured at Tunis ; Emery, Ann. Mus. Genov, xv, 
pp. 389-398. 
Indian ants produce a sound loud enough to bo hoard at a considerable 
distance, by scraping the apex of the abdomen on crisp leaves; Peal, 
Nature, xxii. p. 683. 
Harvesting and leaf-cutting ants in New Jersey ; Treat & Morris, Am. 
Ent. hi. pp. 225 & 226, 228 & 229, 264 & 265 ; the former are referable 
to Phidole pennsylvanica and megacephala. 
On a new harvesting ant, with notes on its battles, &c. ; Morris, Am. 
Nat. xiv. pp. 669 & 670. (It is not clear whathOiV Pogonomyrmex crudelis, 
Forel, or Phidole pennsylvanica is the species alluded to.) 
Small ants fighting for the honey contained in the bodies of larger 
ones ; Miller, Am. Nat. xiv. p. 209. 
Formica rufa kidnapping workers from another nest ; C. G. Bignell, 
Ent. M. M. xvi. pp. 267 & 268. 
Mayr notices the following Formicidee from Turkistan (Tijdschr. Ent. 
xxiii.) : Camponotus sylvaticus, Oliv., variation discussed, pp. 21-23. The 
following form a series of varieties of this species : C. novce-hollandice, 
Mayr, vajnegatus, Sm. (= pallens, Nyl.), maculatus, ¥ahr., cognatus and 
hacchus, Sm., sylvaticus, 01. (= marginaius, Latr.), and eethiops, Latr. 
The South American C. honariensis and simillimus, Mayr, sexguttatus, 
Fabr., and picipes, 01., may also belong to this species, as well as the 
fossil C. mengii, Mayr, which may be the original starting-point. C. 
7narginatus, Latr. (= fallax, Nyl.), wide distribution noticed, p. 24 ; 
Lasius, sp., intermediate between niger, L., and alienus, Forst., p. 26 ; 
Formica cinerea, Mayr, transitional forms, leading to F. rufiharhis, Fabr., 
and subrufa, Rog., p. 27 ; Myrmica rubra, L., Nylander’s subspecies 
noticed, p. 34 ; Tetramorium coespitum, variation, pp. 35 & 36 ; Cardio- 
condyla elegans, Emery, noticed, pp. 37 & 38; Aphamogaster barbai'a, 
Linn., and structor, Latr., transitional forms occur in Turkistan, but not 
in Europe, p. 33 ; Phidole pusilla, Heer, and pallidula, Nyl., are only 
doubtfully distinct, p. 38. 
Myrmecocystus mexicanus, Wesm. Habits; McCook, Am. Ent. iii. 
pp. 273 & 274. 
