. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 755 A. JE. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 343 troublesome, so that one or more species may have been native. See Butler's account, 1619, quoted on p. VSV. Mr. Hurdis (Rough Notes, p. 324) mentions two species of injuri- ous ants, viz: the small House-ant (fig. 110), and a much larger one which he supposed to be of West Indian origin. The latter was especially t
. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 755 A. JE. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 343 troublesome, so that one or more species may have been native. See Butler's account, 1619, quoted on p. VSV. Mr. Hurdis (Rough Notes, p. 324) mentions two species of injuri- ous ants, viz: the small House-ant (fig. 110), and a much larger one which he supposed to be of West Indian origin. The latter was especially troublesome by destroying food of all kinds. He also stated that they were destructive to rabbits, both old and young.* He also says that during seven summers pi'evious to 1848 " Bermuda has been infested with ants to a feai-ful degree," but dur- ing that summer their numbers were greatly decreased, by some unknown cause. This must have been distinct from both the small species named above. Probably this is also the one that is said to destrov honey, in the hives. Ill. Figure 109.—Ichneumon parasite of Cockroach {Evania), male ; and b, pupa; slightly enlarged ; after Packard. Figure 110.—House Ant {Monomorium ininutum); a, female ; b, worker ; x 5. Figure 111.—Pavement or Garden Ant {Tetramoriutn ccespitum); a, female ; x 8; 6, worker ; x4. Both ants from Webster's International Dictionary; after Marlatt. European Black Ant. [Formica nigra L.) This common European species was recorded by W. F. Kirby as collected in Bermuda by the Challenger Exped. (Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist., xiii, p. 404, 1884). Dr. Fr. Dahl (Plankton Exped., i, pt. 1, p. 109) records two addi- tional species: Pheidole pusilla (Heer). Smith, Catal. Brit. Mus. Hym.,vi, p. 173, pi. ix, figs. 18-20. A small species related to the agricultural ants. The major 'workers or soldiers have remarkably large heads and powerful jaws. Specimens of both the major and minor Avorkers of this species, taken
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