. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. foreconstitutes a group of two-fold interest, first, as the ancestral stirp ofthe higher subfamilies, and second, as the oldest existing expression of 16 225 2Z6 ANTS. social life among tin- l-ormiciche—the stage in which we have justpassed, to use Maeterlincks words, from the precarious and incom-plete egoistic to a social life with its slight accession of certainty andhappiness. In order to appreciate this prospective and retrospectivevalue of the 1oneriiue, it will be necessary to consider the taxonomyand especially the habits of these inse
. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. foreconstitutes a group of two-fold interest, first, as the ancestral stirp ofthe higher subfamilies, and second, as the oldest existing expression of 16 225 2Z6 ANTS. social life among tin- l-ormiciche—the stage in which we have justpassed, to use Maeterlincks words, from the precarious and incom-plete egoistic to a social life with its slight accession of certainty andhappiness. In order to appreciate this prospective and retrospectivevalue of the 1oneriiue, it will be necessary to consider the taxonomyand especially the habits of these insects. Unfortunately many of thespecies are rare and live only in the inaccessible portions of the tropics,so that little is known of their habits. I have published some observa-tions ( 19000, 1900^, 1903) on our North American species, represent-ing several of the tribes (Parasyscia anyustic, Stigmatomma pallipcs,Lobopelta elonyata, Pachycondyla , Pscudoponera stigma, Xco-poncra rillosa, Ponera pennsylvanica, Platythyrca pnnctata, Odonto-.
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