AXT COMMUNITIES 



Cannibals, ants as, 80. 

 Captives carried, 272. 

 Carpenter ant queen, 18. 

 Carpenter ants, 222. 

 Carton nests of ants, 29, 30, 



32. 



Caste, 9. 

 Casualties, 158. 

 Catacombs of Rome, an analogy, 



17, 18. 



Caves, mushroom, of ants, 94. 

 Cecropia adenopus, 36. 

 Cedius ziegleri, 231. 

 Cereal foods, taste developed for, 



114. 



Ceylon ant, 34. 

 Chalcid parasite, 233. 

 Challenge of antenna?, 151. 

 Christian theory of war, 190. 

 Cicada, stridulating, 142. 

 Claw, 54. 

 Cleanliness, habitual, 50; tools 



for, 279. 



Cleansing body and head, 283. 

 Cockroaches, with ants, 225. 

 Cold, effects of, 228. 

 Column of march, 117. 

 Commensals, 237. 

 Communal analogies, ants and 



men, xv, xvi. 



Communal dependents, the prob- 

 lem of, 171 et seq. 

 Communal life, influence of, 297. 

 Communal righteousness, 10, 15. 

 Communicate, how ants, 136 et 



seq. 



Comstock, Prof. J. H., 114. 

 Cooper, William S., Detroit, 



Michigan, 12. 

 Courage, 11, 12, 198. 

 Courtiers of queen, 300. 

 Cowardice, rare, 195; example of, 



200. 

 Cremastogaster, architecture of, 



27, 29; form of, 28, 32. 

 Cremastogaster (brevispinosa} , 



199. 



Cremastogaster lincolata, 29. 

 Cricket, wing-cover of male, for 



chirruping, 141. 

 Criminal and degenerate ants, 9, 



10. 

 Crustaceans, ants feed on, 120. 



Cutting ants, 205; underground 

 engineering, 64; head of, 88; 

 night raids, 90; plants pre- 

 ferred by, 91; forms of, 93; 

 caves of, 94. 



Cutting leaves, mode of Atta, 89. 



DARWIN, CHARLES, 273. 

 Dean, Mr. G. A., 25. 



Death's-head moth, 138, 139. 

 Degeneration, without young, 



289. 

 Dependents, immature tax on 



communes, 172; winged, 184. 

 Development of honey-bearers, 



103. 



Devotion to commune, 13, 194. 

 Differentiation of functions of 



workers, 205. 

 Digestive tract, 110. 

 Dipteron parasites, 238. 

 Discord, absence of, 55. 

 Distribution, universal, 224. 

 Dolichoderus bituberculatus, 31, 



32. 



Dorymyrmex flavus, 196. 

 Dorymyrmex pyramicus flarus, 



258. 



Drainage of nests, 285. 

 Dumping-grounds, or chambers, 



in nests, 23, 115. 



ECITON, or " driver ant," 28. 

 Eciton Carolinense, 153. 

 Ectatomma tuberculatum, 114. 

 Education by the State, 168. 

 Eggs, eaten, 78; taken from 



queen by workers, 161; of 



queen, 181. 



Emery, Prof. Carle, 36, 233. 

 Engineering, 37, 40, 43, 49, 63. 

 Engineering methods in ant 



structures, 49 et seq. 



FACE of ant, 148. 



Fecundation, in nest, 174. 



Feeding the commune, 101 et seq. 



Female ant, 77; after marriage 

 flight, 95. 



Female government in nnt com- 

 munities, 155 et seq. 



Female temperament, 156; ex- 

 hibited with young, 165. 



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