34^ ANTS. 



is -till calk-d "man" by the Arabs who use it as food. Hut long ages 

 before the Israelite.- and Arabs had learned to eat the sweet ejecta of 

 this single species, the ants had learned to value the honey-dew of a 

 great many different scale-insects. Imbedded in the Prussian and 



FIG. 209. Carton tent built by Crciuastogaster pilosa over the alder-blight (Pem- 

 phigus tcsscllatus). The structure probably originally enclosed the whole colony of 

 aphids, but the latter in growing and spreading further up the alder branch, broke 

 through the walls of the tent. Natural size. (Original.) 



Sicilian amber are many ants, in most part so closely related to existing 

 aphidicolous and cocciclicolous species that we must ascribe to them a 

 like similarity in habits. In fact, a few large blocks of amber sent me 

 by Prof. Tornquist, and containing numerous workers of Bothrlo- 



