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as a pupal attitude, with his legs drawn up against his body, 

 and his long filiform antennae folded against the mid-ventral 

 surface of his thorax and abdomen. This amusing scene 

 was still in progress when I had to quit my observations 

 half an hour later. The next morning I saw one of the 

 workers (or an ergatoid female?) carry the male in her man- 

 dibles a distance of four inches and disappear with him into 

 one of the galleries. During transport the male preserved the 

 motionless pupal attitude. This treatment of a strange male 

 contrasts strikingly with the treatment received by the male 

 which was allowed to remain with the workers and ergatoids 

 of his own colony. After eight days of captivity this male was 

 killed and devoured by one of the wingless individuals. When 

 I first observed this Amazon, she had already consumed the 

 small head of her victim and was hanging from the roof of a 

 gallery, twirling the torso about with her feet and rasping 

 away the thoracic muscles with her maxillae. Was this act 

 prompted by hunger? or had the male fulfilled his mission in 

 this nest already provided with several packets of eggs ? I 

 have already mentioned the fact that the male of L. elongata 

 was received by a strange colony of workers like an old ac- 

 quaintance. The absence of any display of affection in this 

 case may have been due to the fact that there were no females 

 in the nest. Two strange females introduced into this same 

 nest at different times were at once surrounded and attacked 

 by the workers, and although the colony was without a queen, 

 they were either maimed or killed during the course of the day. 

 Many of the habits of the Ponerinae closely resemble those 

 of other ants. All the habits relating to the cleanliness of the 

 individual ants and of the nests are the same as those of the 

 Myrmicinae and Formicinae. They clean themselves and one 

 another with great care. The males spend much of their time 

 drawing their delicate antennae through the strigils on the 

 fore feet. The nests of all the species are kept scrupulously 

 clean - - all refuse, inedible fragments of their insect prey, 

 empty cocoons, dead sister ants, etc., are carefully deposited 

 in one of the corners of the nest exposed to the light and as far 

 as possible from the chambers in which the young are reared. 



