F0RMICID2E. 
Ins. 133 
McCook, H. C. The Honey Ants of tho Garden of the Gods, and the 
Occident Ants of the American Plains. A monograph of the archi- 
tecture and habits of the honey-bearing Ant, Myrmecocystus melliger, 
with notes upon the anatomy and physiology of the alimentary 
canal ; together with a natural history of the Occident Harvesting 
Ants, or Stone-Mound Builders of the American Plains. Philadel- 
phia: 1882, 8vo, pp. 188, pis. xiii. 
The first part of this work appeared in P. Ac. Philad. 1881 (cf. Zool. 
Hoc. xviii. Ins. p. 118) ; the second part, referring to Pogonomyrmex occi- 
dentalism Cress., treats of its geographical distribution, architecture, 
habits, and armature. (For various notices by Romanes, Hagen, Emery, 
and others, cf. Nature, xxv. pp. 405-407 ; Ent. Nachr. viii. pp. 186-191 ; 
S. E. Z. xlii. pp. 347-352 ; Biol. Centralbl. ii. pp. 83-85 ; and Kosmos, 
xi. pp. 296-298.) 
Reuter, O. M. Om Myrornas v. k. iustinkt med sarskild hansyn till de 
nyaste undorsokningarno rorande densamma. Ofv. Fin. Soc. xxiv. 
pp. 136-164. 
Appears to be a compendium of Lubbock’s observations on ants. 
Stolpii, H. Forteckning ofver Svenska Myror. Preliminart Meddelaude. 
Ent. Tidskr. iii. pp. 127-151, 
A synopsis of Swedish Formicidcc. Contains nothing new, unless the 
notices of two or three undetermined species may be so regarded. 
Ants and Aphides ; Osten-Sacken, Psyche, iii. p. 343. 
Ants being employed in China to clear orango trees of injurious insects, 
McCook discusses the habits of various species, with reference to the possi- 
bility of their being used for similar purposes in America ; P. Ac. Philad. 
1882, pp. 263-271 (cf. also Riley & Tennent, Nature, xxvi. pp. 126, 159 & 
160). 
Two ants’ nests of different species in close contiguity ; Parrot, Sc'. 
Goss, xviii. p. 237. 
Sound-producing ants ; Blanford, Fotheringham, & Lewis, Nature, 
xxv. pp. 32 & 55, xxvi. p. 266. 
Edible ants ; Provancher, Nat. Canad. xiii. pp. 30 & 31. 
Habits of South Australian ants; Tepper, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. v. 
pp. 24-28, 106, & 107. 
On fungi found in ants’ nests; Gard. Chron. (2) xviii. p.-401, figs. 
Formica herculeana. Nest five feet below the surface of the ground, 
under the roots of an oak; Guillaume, Bull. Soc. Neueh. xii. p. 499 ; 
F. ruber and niger [sic] f a slave foray; Siewers, J. Cincinn. Soc. v. 
pp. 60 & 61. 
Lasius farms : marriage flight; Lucas, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. pp. clx. 
& clxi. L. inlerjectus herding 2 species of Aphis and Coccus ; Leidy, 
P. Ac. Philad. 1882, pp. 148 & 149. L. niger clearing clothes infested 
with vermiu ; Waga, Le Nat. ii. p. 46 : larvae and pupae of Microdon 
mutabilis (a Syrphid) occurring in its nests; Mayet, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
(6) ii. p. cvi. 
Cremastus lineolatus , Say, constructing a shed for Aphides ; Trelease, 
Psycho, iii. pp. 310 & 311. 
