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² B. Laufer, *Die Sage von den goldgrabenden Ameisen*, *T’oung Pao* IX, 1908, p. 429. Laufer admitted (p. 444) that on chronological grounds the name *might* have travelled from India to Mongolia and not *vice versa*; but Darius’ Susa inscription has now made this impossible and has confirmed his view. There is no need now to refer to the stock explanation of the ‘ants’, going back to Humboldt and given by many writers, most recently by R. Hennig, *Rh. Mus.* LXXX, 1931, p. 331; once the facts are sorted out it is impossible, for two separate reasons.