Genus IX. — Formica. 'The AnL 
The characters of this remarkable tribe are, a fmall 
ereft fcale between the thorax and abdomen ; truncated 
or brokeh antennse, having their firft articulation longer* 
than the reft; the females and neuters armed with a 
fting, which is concealed in the abdomen. The males 
and females have wings, while the neuters are apterous *. 
In the Syftem of Nature, there are enumerated eighteen 
different fpecies of the ant ; of thefe, the largeft is thfe 
hippomyrmex, or horfe ant, which is found in the hol- 
low trunks of rotten trees. The head is black, and the 
thorax ferruginous; the feet are of the fame colour, 
while the abdomen is brown : The ereft fcale between 
that part and the thorax, is oval, entire, pointed, arid 
round f. Trie other animals 01 this genus moft common, 
are, 
The larger and fmaller red ants. Thefe are found in 
woods, or under heaps of dry earth, and are the moft la- 
borious and induftrious of the whole info a tribe : under 
thefe charaaers they are fr quently alluded to by almoit 
every writer of antiquity. 
Vol. III. 3 U Tt?e 
• Syftema Naturae, Ord. V. Gen, is. 
| Vide Kai Ifrf, p. 79' 
