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10.09 A.M. One worker catches her by a middle leg and pulls her about for 

 a minute, then steps and licks her thorax and abdomen, then seizes her again 

 by the leg and pulls her, but apparently not very hard. Again it stops and 

 licks the queen for a minute and then goes a little to one side and begins 

 cleaning its own antennae but soon comes back to the queen and repeats 

 the whole perfcrmance. The worker keeps this up for twelve minutes and 

 then goes away. The queen has remained all this time in the same position, 

 one half inch from the brood. 



2.00 P.M. She is out in the light chamber but soon goes back. 

 4.35 P.M. One ant holding her by the petiole, another by one antenna. 

 6.00 P.M. A worker holding her by the antennae. 

 8.15 P.M. The same. 

 Aug. 10 7.15 A.M. She is out in the light chamber alone. 



9.15 A.M. She is in the dark chamber but not with the workers. 



11.30 A.M. She has been in the light chamber by herself most of the morning. 



11.50 A.M. Two workers are pulling her about. 



2.00 P.M. She is running around in the light chamber, trying to get out. The 



workers seem more hostile today than yesterday. 

 Aug. ii 8.00 A.M. The queen is dead; I remove her. 



9.05 A.M. I place another queen in the light chamber. She starts into the 



dark chamber and is seized in the passage way by two of the workers, one 



pulling an antenna, another holding her petiole. They drag her about in 



the dark chamber. 

 9.50 A.M. The queen is on the sponge near the brood and has seized the petiole 



of one of the workers in her mandibles. Workers are standing about but 



do not attack her; once in a while a worker licks her. 

 10.30 A.M. A worker seizes her by the hind tarsus and holds her for five minutes. 



She is still holding the worker. 

 10.15 A.M. Still in the same place. She is straddling the head and thorax 



of the worker which she is holding by the petiole. Once in a while a worker 



seizes her by a leg or an antenna, but some of the workers are licking her. 

 10.30 A.M. Still holding the worker. 



11. 10 A.M. The same. 

 12. 10 P.M. The same. 



1.30 P.M. The same. She is standing in the midst of the brood. 



3.50 P.M. Still holding the worker; she is carrying it around now on the sponge 



and in the midst of the other workers and brood. She pays no attention 



to the other workers, some of which nab her at times. There is no excitement 



in the nest. 

 4.30 P.M. Still carrying the worker around; she does not get far from the 



sponge and most of the time is on it with the brood and workers. The 



worker seems to be nearly dead and for several hours has made no effort 



to escape or defend itself. 

 5.00 P.M. The same. 



6.00 P.M. The same. A worker holding the queen by the antennae. 

 8.00 P.M. The queen is still on the sponge holding the worker. 

 9.00 P.M. She is about two inches from the sponge, a worker holding her by 



the antennae; she is not holding the worker now. 

 Aug. 12 8.00 A.M. She is again on the sponge with the brood, a worker tugging 



at one of her tarsi. 



