EBR

INDEX.

communication among bees, 156,

313

EB

BRARD, M., his observations
as to the origin of ants' nests,

31

Eoiton, the eye in, 11

drepanophora, their order in
marching, 21

erratica, soldiers among, 21;
their covered galleries, 65
- legionis at play, 29

vastator, soldiers among, 21;
their covered galleries, 65
Economy of labour among ants,
experiments as to, 240, &c.
Eggs of ants described, 6; laid
occasionally by worker ants, 35;
by worker bees and wasps, 36;
these always produce males, 37;
as to difference of sex in, 40;
of aphis, tended by ants, 69;
and hatched in captivity, 71
Electric light, experiments on ants
with, 200

Emery's observations on Colobopsis,

20

Enemies of ants, 26, 67

Evolution of colour in flowers, 308
Experiments, as to the adoption of
a queen by ants, 32; as to di-
vision of labour among ants, 23,
44, 324; as to their care of
aphis-eggs, 70; on Claviger, 90;
as to the treatment by ants of

FOO

152, as to power of communi.
cation among ants, 160-181,
344-376; among bees, 274, 401;
among wasps, 311, 415; as to
perception of colour, 186; with
coloured solutions, 194;
with
spectrum, 198; with the electric
light, 201; as to ultra-violet
rays, 200-220; with magnesium
spark, 207; as to sense of hear-
ing among ants, 222; among
bees, 290; as to sense of smell
among ants, 233, 258; among
bees, 288; as to ant intelligence,
237; as to economy of labour,
241; as
to ingenuity among
ants, 243-6; as to their power
of finding their way, 250; as
to means of tracking, 168, 383,
387; as to sense of direction
among ants, 260; among bees,
278; and among wasps, 321; as
to guidance of ants by sight,
266; as to the behaviour of
bees in a strange hive, 281; as
to their compassion, 286; as to
their colour sense, 291; and
their preference
of certain
colours, 302; as to colour sense
among wasps, 316
Expulsion of ant from nest, 98
Eyes of two kinds in ants, 10;
compound, 182; various de-
velopments of, 183

injured companions, 94, 107; FAC

with chloroformed ants, 98,
108-111; with drowned ants,
99; with buried ants, 102; as
to treatment of stranger ants,
1:4, 119, 124, 333; as to mode
of recognition, 108; with in-
toxicated ants, 111- 118; as to
power of recognition among
ants, 119, 333; and among bees,
126; with ant-pupæ removed
from nest, 129-147; on sister-
ants brought up.separately, 147–

ACETS of the eye in ants,
number of, 11; described, 182
Feeding, loss of instinct of, 76, 83,
87

Fertilisation of plants by insects,
50, 291

Fighting among ants, different
modes of, 17
Flowers, their defences against
unprofitable insects, 51-55; in.
fluence of bees on their develop
ment, 291; paucity of blue, 308
Food of ants, 25, 63; its effect in

FRA

INDEX.

Frank.in, Dr., as tc power of com-
munication among ants, 155
Friends, behaviour of ants to, 97,
101; recognition of, 119, 333

GALLERIES, covered, made by

65

Galton, Mr. Francis, on domestic
animals kept as pets, 77
Games among ants, 28
Gélieu, M., on means of recogni-
tion among bees, 126
Gentians, colours of, 310
Glasses, experiments on ants with
coloured, 186, &c.

Gould, Mr., on the emergence of

the imago, 8; on ant-games,
28; on the eggs of aphides, 69
Goureau, M., on the sound pro-
duced by Mutilla, 229
Graber, Dr. von, on the sense
organs in the legs of Gryllus,

231

Grain collected and stored by ants,
26,60; germination of, prevented
by ants, 61

Gredler, Dr., anecdote of ant-intel-
ligence told by, 237

Grimm's observations on Dinarda,
76

Grote, Mr., quoted as to the ne-
cessity of morality in societies,

93
Growth of insects takes place
during the larval stage, 8
Guests of ants, 74
Gryllus,sense organs in tibiæ of,231

INS

Hatred a stronger passion with

ants than affection, 106
Head of ant described, 10; large

size of, in workers of certain
species, 20, 22

Hearing, sense of, among insects,
221; possibly present in ants,
226; among bees, 290; among
wasps, 313

Hetarius sesquicornis, in ants'
nests, 77

Hicks, Dr. J. Braxton, on the
antennæ of insects, 227
Hildebrand on the variations of
blue flowers, 310

Honey, love of ants for, 51; of
aphis, 69; experiments on ants
entangled in, 98

Honey ants, 19, 47; independently
originated in Mexico and Texas,
Hope, Mr., quoted as to harvest.
49; of Australia described, 428
ing ants, 60

Horse ant, see F. rufa
Huber, as to ants playing, 28; as

to the formation of a nest, 30;
on the care taken by ants of
aphis eggs, 70; as to slavery
among ants, 81; as to their re-
cognition of friends, 120; as to
their deafness, 221
Hunting ants, 59, 63, 91
Hydnophytum formicarum, its as
sociation with ants, 58
Hymenoptera, common origin of
the sting in the, 15; the social,
means of communication be
tween, 153

NDIVIDUAL differences be
tween ants, 95, 101; between
bees, 279

Industry of ants, 27; of wasps,
321, 421

Insects, their metamorphoses, 8;
their agency in fertilisation of
flowers, 50, 291; mimicking ants,
66; kept by ants, 73; recogni
tion among, 126; their vision,

LES

INDEX.

Lespès, M., on eggs laid by work-
ers, 35; on grain stored by ants,
61; on the feeding of Lome-
chusa by ants, 76; on the
domestic arimals of ants, 90
Leuckart, his experiments on ant-
intelligence, 238

Life, duration of, among ants, 8
Light, dislike of ants to, 2, 186;

as aid to sense of direction
among ants, 268; bees attracted
by, 284
Ligurian queen bee, introduction
of a, 287

Limits of vision with ants, experi-
ments as to, 199-206; in Daph-
nia, 219

Lincecum, Dr., as to Texan har-
vesting ants, 62

Linnæus quoted as to aphides, 67
Locust, ants apparently deceived
by a leaf-like, 66
Lomechusa fed by ants, 76
Long, Col., as to the sense of
hearing among certain ants, 226
Longevity of workers of Lasius
niger, 38, 42; of queen ants, 9, 40
Lowne, Mr., quoted as to the func-
tions of ocelli, 183

Lund, M., quoted as to the intel-
ligence of ants, 236

Lycana pseudargiolus, ants seen
licking the larva of, 68

McC

to

[CCOOK, Mr., quoted as
the adoption of a queen by
Crematogaster, 34; as to honey-
ants, 48; as to the grain-fields
of the Texan harvesting ant, 62;
as to ants licking the larva of a
butterfly, 68; on recognition by
smell among ants, 127
Märkel quoted as to insects kept
by F. rufa, 74
Maimonides as to the ownership of
ant-stores of grain, 59
Males only produced by eggs laid
by workers among bees, wasps,
and ants, 36, 37; of Anergates

Mischna, rules in, respecting ant-
hoards of grain, 59

Mites, ants infested by, 26, 98;
new species in nests of Lasius
flavus, 429

Mocquerys, M., on the tenacity of
the bite of the ant, 96
Moggridge, Mr., on harvesting
ants, 61

Morality among ants, question as
to, 93; among bees, 285
Mosaic theory of the vision of com.
pound eyes, 184
Moseley, Mr. H. N., quoted as to
the connection between ants
and certain epiphytes, 58
Mouth of ant described, 11
Müller, his observations on Cla
viger, 76; on the mosaic theory
of vision, 184; on the colour
sense in bees, 307; on blue
flowers, 310

Mushrooms grown by ants, 57
Myrmecina Latreillii, the eye in
11; their mode of defence, 16;
said to be phlegmatic in disposi
tion, 27