. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. THE HISTORY OI; MYRMECOLOGY. 127 system of the European species, but they have published excellentmonographs and revisions of the faunas of other continents, so thatthe student of today finds it a comparatively easy task to continue thework. Although the ant-fauna of North America is vastly richer than thatof Europe, few of our entomologists have cared to study its tax-onomy and as a rule these few have beenpoorly prepared to undertake the have been described by Buckley,Cresson,- Fitch, Haldeman, McCook, Norton,Pergande, Provanche
. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. THE HISTORY OI; MYRMECOLOGY. 127 system of the European species, but they have published excellentmonographs and revisions of the faunas of other continents, so thatthe student of today finds it a comparatively easy task to continue thework. Although the ant-fauna of North America is vastly richer than thatof Europe, few of our entomologists have cared to study its tax-onomy and as a rule these few have beenpoorly prepared to undertake the have been described by Buckley,Cresson,- Fitch, Haldeman, McCook, Norton,Pergande, Provancher, Scudder. Yiereckand Walsh, but the really valuable work FIG. -i. Worker of Stc- on our fauna has been accomplished by rcon, homi of Ceylon. AT T7 1 T- 1 (Bmgham.) Mayr, Emery and rorel. The study of ant ethology has had a more continuous, though per-haps slower, development than the taxonomy. It is also much older,and may be said to date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth cen-turies, to authors like Wilder ( 1615) Bonnet ( i779-83),
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