Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College Volume 64 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1921 Excerpt: ... AT HARVARD COLLEGE. Vol. LXIV. No. 5. THE ANTS OF THE FIJI ISLANDS. By W. M. Mann. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U. S. A.: PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM. February, 1921. Xo. 5.--The Ants of the Fiji Islands. By W. M. Mann. The ants listed and described in the present paper were collected by the writer during 1915-1916, when about ten months were spent in the Fijis as Sheldon Travelling Fellow of Harvard University. Itinerary. The Lau Archipelago was first visited. At Loma Loma on Vanua Mbalavu I found a small cutter, the Lotu Wesele, belonging to the Yesleyan Mission, about to start for Ono i Lau at the southern extremity of the group. Permission to travel on her was given me by Rev. A. W. Amos at Lakeba and this enabled me to make a general, though hurried, survey of fifteen of these islands. Certain fortuitous circumstances, such as bad winds, native ceremonies, and the discovery by our sailors of a roasted shark in a village, delayed the voyage at various points and occasioned stops of several days at Tuvuca, Lakeba, Kabara, and Ono i Lau, which permitted more extensive collecting. At Munia, I remained over a week-end as guest of the owner of the island, Mr. H. H. Steinmetz. On Taviuni I lived with Dr. It. S. Trotter who had charge of the government hospital at Waiyevo, and collected chiefly in the hills back of the native village of Somo Somo. One excursion was made to the mountain lake in the interior and another to the MacKenzie estate at Xagasau, fourteen miles down the coast. Vanua Levu was twice visited; the first time by crossing from Taviuni to Buca Bay. I remained for some time at Lasema, situated a short distance up the Lasema River, where Mr. G. U. Solney, the proprietor of a saw-mill, extended to me the open hospitality characteristic of his native Australia. A...