INDEX 



ACACIA, Mexican, nest of ants 

 in, 36. 



Accidents repaired, 50. 



Achray, ants in Pass of, 58. 



Adaptation of means, 50. 



Adlerz, Gottfrid, 108. 



.Ecophylla smaragdina, 34. 



African ants, 34, 192. 



Agricultural ant, 20, 21, 22, 55, 

 130, 187, 206, 257, 286; open 

 plaza, 56; roads, 56; transpor- 

 tation, 57; feeding, 84, 146. 



Agriculture, Department of, 114. 



Agriculture destroying ants' 

 nests, 107. 



Alien associates and affinities in 

 ant communes, 224 et se<j. 



Alleghany mound-makers, 151. 



Amazons, ants are, 155. 



Ancestral habit, 30. 



Andre, M. Ernest, 233. 



Anger and rudeness, absence of, 

 toward dependents, 180. 



Ant cows. See Aphides, 



Antennae, organs of smell, 81, 

 123; as hearing organs, 148; 

 sensibility of, 149; functions 

 of, 150; cleansing, 50. 



Antennal parley, 153. 



Ants, factors determining be- 

 havior, 181; lack of personal 

 benevolence, 292; communal 

 loyalty the onlv benevolence, 

 295. 



Aphis herds and ant associates, 

 243 et seq. 



Aphides, 30, 102, 227, 244, 245; 

 of Formica exsectoides, 5, 13. 



Aphenogastcr tennesseensis, 35. 



Appetite, pleasures of an ant's, 



180. 



Architecture, nesting, 17; sim- 

 plest types, 26; development 

 of, 26, 27. 



Argiope aurantium (spider), 124. 



Ashmead, Professor, 233. 



Asian ant, 34. 



Atta fervens, 72, 86, 87, 92, 146; 

 big-headed workers, 205. 



Atta sexdens, 95. 



Attaphila fungicola, 229. 



Attidsp, 37, 66, 86. 



Auditory organs, 147. 



Avebury, Lord (Sir John Lub- 

 bock, Bart.), 152, 210, 273, 

 294. 



BANKOK, Siam, ant of, 31, 32. 



Bees, language of, 125, 127; 

 spiracular voicing, 137. 



Beetles, with ants, 225; Lome- 

 chusan, 232. 



Behavior of ants, factors deter- 

 mining, 181. 



Bell wood, Pennsylvania, ant, 35. 



Big-headed workers, 116, 203. 



Boll- weevil, destroyed by ants, 

 114. 



Brains of ants, 183. 



Brunelli, Signer, 140. 



Buckley, Prof. S. B., 86. 



Building up mounds, 43, 46. 



CAGES for stridulating insects, 



Japanese, 142. 



Calderwood, Prof. Henry, 150. 

 Callow antlings, 164. 

 Camponotus abdominah's, 199. 

 Camponotus americanus, 107. 

 Camponotus maccooki, 237. 

 Camponotus pennsylvanicus, 192. 



Cnni])onotus rufipcs, 32. 

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