118 Jn.9. 
HYMENOPTEUA. 
either a queen or a worker from a given egg ; show kindness to a sick 
companion; and live to the age of at least seven or eight years. 
[Lubbock, (Sir) J.] Observations on Bees, Ants, and Wasps. Nature, 
xxiii. pp. 255-258. 
Relates to ants, and treats of power of communication, recognition of 
relations, workers breeding, hearing, treatment of Aphides, &c. 
McCook, H. C. The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods. P. Ac. 
Philad. 1881, pp. 17-77, pis. i.-x. 
Relates to Myrmecocystus melliger var. n. hortus-deorum, McCook 
(described, p. 75, from Colorado). The separate chapters relate to geo- 
graphical distribution ; ant-hone}% which is gathered by night from a 
Cynips gall on scrub-oak ; interior architecture of nests ; queen life ; 
economy of the honey-bearers ; anatomy of the alimentary canal ; para- 
sites, literature, and description. The honey is contained in an expan- 
sion of the crop which fills the abdomen, the organs of which are in a 
natural state (neither ruptured nor re-absorbed), but displaced by pressure. 
Catalogue of ants collected at Cairo, Aden, Assab, and neighbouring 
places ; Emery, Ann. Mus. Genov, xvi. pp. 525-535. The following 
known species are specially noticed : — Camponotus sylvaticns, Oliv., var., 
Myrmecocystus viaticus, Fabr., var. albicans, Rog., Leptotliorax exilis-, 
Emery, Monomorinm, species from Africa, Meditorranean, and Red Sea 
tabulated ; M. subopacnm, var. mediterraneum, Mayr., Aphcenogaster pal- 
lida, Nyl., var. subterraneoides, from Zante, and Phidole rugaticeps, Em., 
var. arabs, from Tes. 
Emery (Ann. Mus. Genov, xvi. pp. 270-273) records the following 
known species from Shoa : — Platythyrea cribrinodis, Gerst., Aj^hceno- 
gaster barbara, Fabr., Phidole punctulata and Typhlopone brevinodosa, 
Mayr, and Anomma burmeisteri. Shuck. The various forms of the last 
species are described, aud two outlines of the heads of workers are given. 
Ants mimicked by Spiders, which live associated with them, and are 
not easily distinguished from them ; Semper, Natural Conditions of 
Existence, p. 391, fig. 104 (Spiders). 
Sound produced by Ants in Sumatra and Assam ; Forbes & Peal, 
Nature, xxiv. pp. 101, 102 & 484. 
An excellent edible oil procured from Ants by the negroes of Central 
Africa (Ndoruma) ; Junker, Geogr. MT. xxvii. p. 153. 
Mischief caused by Ants in Arizona; Rusby, Am. Nat. xv. pp. 573 & 574, 
Lychnis viscaria a trap for Ants; J. H. Stone, Nature, xxv. pp. 151 & 
152. 
Camponotus herculeanus. Aspen destroyed by this Ant ; Bertholet, 
Bull. Soc. Vaud. (2) xvii. pp. xxv. & xxvi. C. injlatus, Lubbock (Austra- 
lian honey-ant), noticed; Nature, xxiii. p. 258. 
Lasius mixtus, Nyl., recorded as new to Britain ; Fitch & Bignell, 
P. E. Soc. 1881, pp. xxvii. & xxviii., and Ent. p. 262. 
Tapinoma, sp. from Sicilian amber described and figured ; Cornalia, 
Atti Acc. Rom., Trans. (3) v. pp. 81-83, fig. 2. 
Atta, sp. A new leaf-cutting Ant observed in New Jersey, which con- 
