FORMICIDiE, 
Ins. Ill 
wings. During the pupa-state the case opens at the extremity, flattens 
out, and allows the wing to develop in the male and female, but in the 
worker the rudiments of wings become wholly aborted. 
. [Vide “ General Subject,” anted, p. 2.] 
Emery, C., & Forel, A. Catalogue des Formicides d’Europe. MT. 
schw. ent. Ges. v. pp. 441-481. 
This work is divided into three sections : indigenous species, introduced 
species, and bibliography. The following observations occur in notes : — 
Camponotiis puhescens is connected with herculeanus by pennsylxmnicus, 
and is probably a race of the same species ; Lasius qfinis Rnd incisa, 
Schenck, are identical, and = L. hicornis, Forst., var. ; Phidole palli- 
dula, Moggr., probably does not belong to that genus ; Typhlopone euro- 
pma, Rog., = punctata, Sra. 
Lubbock, Sir J. The Habits of Ants. P. R. Inst. ix. pp. 174-190. 
Discusses the character of Ants, recognition of friends, &c., and their 
organs of vision. Much of this paper has appeared elsewhere. As regards 
their vision, the author concludes that they have the power of distin- 
guishing colour, and are very sensitive to violet light, but that their 
perceptions difPer very much from our own. 
. On the Anatomy of Ants. (Abstract.) J. L. S. xiv. pp. 738 & 
739. 
McCook, H. C. The Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas. 
A Monograph of the Habits, Architecture, and Structure of Pogo- 
myrmex barbatus. Philadelphia: 1879 [1880 on title], 8vo, pp. 311, 
pis. xxiv. 
An exceedingly elaborate monograph, comprising chapters on the 
literature of the subject, surface architecture, harvesting habits, the 
ancient belief in harvesting ants, architecture of formicaries, mining, food, 
toilet, sleeping, and funeral habits, queens, and the founding of new 
colonies, migrations and movements, sting and its anatomy, and wars. 
(Review by A. R. Wallace, Nature, xx. p. 501.) 
— — . On the Architecture and Habits of the Cutting Ant of Texas 
(Atta fervens). P. Ac. Philad. 1879, pp. 33-40, and Ann. N. H. (6) 
iii. pp. 442-449 (cf. also G. T. Bettany, Nature, xx. p. 683). 
Contains observations on the external and internal architecture, the 
underground galleries, and the gates of the nests ; the manner in which 
the leaves are cut, and on the origin of the various castes by evolution, 
which the writer regards as an impossible hypothesis in this case. 
Norton, E. Notas sobre las Hormigas Mexicanas. Nat. Mex. iii. 
pp. 179-190. 
Translated from Am. Nat. by A. Moreno, who adds notes on the habits 
of (Ecodoma mexicana. 
Several papers on the habits of Ants have appeared in “ Die Natur.” 
Intelligence in Ants dragging burdens ; W. Winder, Sci. Goss. xv. 
p. 262. 
