. Collected papers on ants. Ants. 734 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. f\^ol. XXIII,' November 3, 1900, I excavated a large nest of Atta texana situated on the left bank of the Colorado River about a mile west of Austin. This nest was in pure sand at the edge of a sorghum field about 15 m. above the river bottom where it Vv'as overgrown with lovr willoAv, pecan and Texas persimmon trees. The ants were busy defoliating the willows and carrying their leafy burdens up the bank and into the nest along a path about SO m. long. At intervals along this path piles of leaf-clippings, droppe
. Collected papers on ants. Ants. 734 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. f\^ol. XXIII,' November 3, 1900, I excavated a large nest of Atta texana situated on the left bank of the Colorado River about a mile west of Austin. This nest was in pure sand at the edge of a sorghum field about 15 m. above the river bottom where it Vv'as overgrown with lovr willoAv, pecan and Texas persimmon trees. The ants were busy defoliating the willows and carrying their leafy burdens up the bank and into the nest along a path about SO m. long. At intervals along this path piles of leaf-clippings, dropped by the ants, lay drying in the sun. The leaves were cut by the medife in the manner described by ^Nloeller for the South American discigera. The. Fig. lu. iiariuii .spiiiiK,-., ueui' , lt-\, ilie classic localitj' for the study of Atta texana. (Pliotograpla by Messrs. Brues and Melander.) nest was in a promontory accessible from three sides, one of which formed the wall of a small ravine. The craters Avere very numerous and nearly all on the summit of the bank. The arrangement of the galleries and chambers Avas very similar to that described for the nest on Waller Creek, except that the chambers AA'ere at a loAA'er IcA'el ( to m.) beloAV the sur- face and much larger. One of them, of a crescentic form, measured nearly 1 m. in length and 30 cm. broad and high. All of the chambers, of AA-hich I examined fully a dozen, AA'cre situated in a damper layer of sand than. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937.
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