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BDOMEN of ant described, 10,

13; of the Mexican honey
ant, 19, 47

Acacia with hollow thorns in.
habited by ants, 57
Affection less powerful than
hatred among ants, 106; absence
of, among bees, 286
Agricultural ants, 61, 92
Aldrovandus quoted as to ants, 61
Amazon ants, see Polyergus ru-
fescens

Amber, an intermediate form of
ant preserved in, 68
Analogies between ant societies
and human, 91

André quoted as to Platyarthrus,

75; as to the slaves of F.san-
guinea, 80

Anergates, 85; no workers among
them, 86 degraded condition
of, 89

Animal food, queens hatched in
an artificial nest supplied with,

40

Angracum sesquipedale, length of
Lowers of, 52

Anomma arcens, the Driver ant,
described, 20, 63; their blind-
ness, 65

Ants, three families of, 1; four
periods of life in, 6; duration of
life among, 8, 38, 40; structure

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of, 10; different classes of indi.
viduals among, 18; communities
of, 24; games of, 28; their rela-
tion to plants, 50; often insecti-
vorous, 59; their relations to
other animals generally hostile,
63; their enemies, 26, 67; their
domestic animals, 67-78; pro-
gress among, 90; their beha-
viour towards each other, 94,
&c.; mental powers of, 181;
their sense of vision, 11, 182–
220, 258; of smell, 127, 238,
258; of hearing, 221, 226; stri-
dulating apparatus among, 230.
their intelligence, 236
'Ant eggs,' 7
'Ant-rice,' 61

Antenna of ant described, 10;
sense organ in terminal portion
of, illustrated, 227

Antennæ as means of communica

tion among ants, 153; as organs
of hearing, 221, 226; of smell,
94, 234

Antirrhinum fertilised by humble
bees, 54

Aphides made use of by ants, 25,

67; different species of, utilised
by different ants, 68; their
honey, 69; their eggs tended by
ants, 70; not aomesticated by
F. fusca, 91

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ATES, Mr., quoted as to the
five kinds of workers in
Saüba, 22; as to ant-play, 29;
as to the use made by ants of
leaves, 57; as to the armies of
Eciton, 65; as to leaf-cutting
by Saüba, 237

Batrisus, rarely more than one
specimen of, found in an ants'
nest, 78

Beckia, one of the ant-guests, 74
Bees, occasional fertility of
workers among, 36; means of
recognition among, 126; their
sense of hearing, 221, 290; ob-
servations with, 274; difficulty
in finding their way, 278; their
behaviour in a strange hive, 281;
their recklessness, 285; their
want of mutual affection, 286;
their influence on the develop-
ment of flowers, 51, 291, their
colour sense, 291; their prefer-
ence for blue, 294-310; experi-
ments on communication among
them, 276, 401

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Beetles kept in ants' nests, 74, 76,
90

Belt, Mr. Thomas, quoted as to
floral defences against ants, 51;
as to defence against leaf-cut-
ting ants, 57; on the raids of
Eciton, 66; on an ant-like
spider, 66

Bert, Prof. Paul, as to the limits
of vision, 219

Bichromate of potash, experiments
with, 211

Bisulphide of carbon, experiments
with, 208;

Blanchard, M.. quoted as to the
origin of nests, 30

Blindness of Anomma and Eciton
65; of Platyarthrus and Beckia
75

Blue, the favourite colour of bees,
294, 304, 310; flowers, their late
origin, 308

Bonnet, M., on aphis eggs, 70
Bonnier, M., on indifference to
colour among bees, 302
Bothriomyrmex meridionalis, the
eye in, 11

Brazil, blind hunting ants of, 65;
use made by the Indians in, of
the tenacity of an ant-bite, 96
Buchla dactyloides, seed of, col-
lected by ants, 61

Büchner, Dr., as to Texan harvest-
ing ants, 62

Burmeister, on the power of recog

nition among insects, 126
Butterfly, ants seen licking the
larva of, 68

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Chennium, rarely more than one
specimen of, in an ants' nest, 78
Christ, M., on the length of life of
queen ants, 9; on ant roads, 25
Chrome alum, experiments as to
ant vision with, 217
Chromium chloride, experiments
with, 217

Claparède, M, as to insect-vision,

183

Clark, Rev. Hamlet, as to an ant-
tunnel in S. America, 25
Claviger, a blind beetle, a guest
in ants' nests, 75, 76; experi-
ments with, by M. Lespès, 90
Cleanliness of ants, 29
Coccidæ, their use to ants, 68
Cocoons spun by some larvæ of
ants, 7

Colobopsis truncata and C. fusipes,
two forms of the same species,
20
Colour-sense of ants, 186, &c.; of
bees, 291, &c.; of wasps, 316;
less developed among wasps
than bees, 321

Colours of flowers, evolution of,
308
Communication, power of, among

ants, 153, &c.; among bees,
156; experiments as to, with
ants, 160, 344, 376; with bees,
276, 401; with wasps, 311, 415
Communities of ants, 24; power

of mutual reco_nition among
members of, 119, 333
Compassion among ants, instances
of, 106, 108; absence of, among
bees, 286

Co-operation, experiments as to,
among ants, 365-376
Correlation of form of knot with
stinging power in ants, 13; of
colour in flowers with specialisa-
tion of form, 308

Courage of an's, 27; of wasps,
314
Crematogaster lineolata, adoption
of a queen by, 34

Darkness, education of young
ants conducted in, 5; effect of,
on the eyes of Platyarthrus and
Beckia, 75

Darwin, on the sound produced
by Mutilla, 229

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Francis, on the use of the leaf-
cups of teazle, 52

Dead, treatment of the, among
bees, 287

Defences of flowers against un-
bidden guests, 52-7
Degradation of Strongylognathus,
85; caused by slaveholding, 80
Dewitz, Dr., on the non-develop-
ment of the sting in the For
micidæ, 14; on eggs laid by
fertile workers, 36, 40
Dinarda dentata in ants' nests,
76, 77

Dipsacus sylvestris, leaf-cups of, 52
Direction, sense of, among ants,
260; guided by the position of
the light, 268; sense of, among
bees, 278; among wasps, 321
420

Discs, atrophy of imaginal, in
worker ants, 12; cleared by
harvesting ants, 61; experi.
ments as to sense of direction
with rotating, 261, &c.

Division of labour among ants,
23, 44; tabular view of experi
ments on, 324

Domestic animals of ants, 68-78
Driver ants, see Anomma arcens
Dujardin, M., as to the power of