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The other instance is as follows : 



Th. Meenan (' Proc. of the Acad. of Nat.,' Philadelphia, Jan. 

 22, 1878) observed a very similar case with Vespa maculata. 

 He saw one of these wasps try in vain to raise from the ground 

 a grasshopper it had killed. When all its efforts proved to be 

 in vain, it pulled its prey to a maple tree, about thirty feet off, 

 mounted it with its prize, and flew away from it. ' This,' adds 

 the writer, 'was more than instinct. It was reflection and 

 judgment, and the judgment was proved to be correct.' 



Depriving bees of their antennae has the effect of pro- 

 ducing an even more marked bewilderment than results 

 from this operation in the case of ants. A queen thus 

 mutilated by Huber ran about in confusion, dropping her 

 eggs at random, and appeared unable to take with preci- 

 sion the food that was offered her. She showed no resent- 

 ment to a similarly mutilated stranger queen that was 

 introduced: the workers also heeded not the mutilated 

 stranger ; but when an unmutilated stranger was intro- 

 duced they fell upon her. When the mutilated queen 

 was allowed to escape, none of the workers followed. 



