ANT. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae filiform. 
A little upright scale situated between the thorax and the 
abdomen. 
Sting concealed within the abdomen. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Formica rufa. F. nigra, thorace compresso pedibusque fer- 
rugineis. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 2798. 
Black, with rusty-coloured feet, and com- 
pressed thorax. 
Formica thorace compresso toto ferrugineo, 
capite abdomineque nigris. Syst. Nat. 
Linn. 12. 2. p. 962. no. 3. 
Formica rufa. Scop. Ent. Cam. 836. 
Formica ferruginea. Degeer !ns. 2. p. 305. 
no. 1. pi. 14. f. 1, 2. 
Common Ant. Schcejf. Elem. pi. 64. Icon. pi. 5. f. 3. Shaw 
Gen. Zool. 6. p. 349. pi. 100. 
In describing the manners of this little insect, we 
only pass from one industrious creature to another. 
We have left the bee, whose ingenuity is so con- 
spicuous, to describe the ant, who does not fall 
short in her domestic ceconomy, or show less ability 
