iv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



71. Putting Spokes to the Wheel 



72. The First Radii 



73. Alternate Apposition 



74. Spiral roundations— Putting in the Spirals 

 7.5. Araehne's Pearls — Viscid Beads . 



76. Preceptor to His Majesty : Robert Bruce and the 



Spider 



77. "Nobody in, Sir, Pass On !" 



78. Winged Female, Male, Soldier and Worker-Major of 



Cutting-Ant (Attafervens) .... 



79. Mound-Nest of Cutting-Ant 



80. Procession of Parasol or Cutting-Ants . 



81. The Parasol Ant — An Emmet Robinson Crusoe 



82. Defoliated Twig of Pride-of-China-Tree 



83. Ant Making a Cutting from a Live Oak Leaf 



84. Head of a Cutting Ant . .... 



85. Ants Bewitching Cows 



86. Knights of Myrmecology Storming the.Ant-Hill 



87. View of Trench Exposing the Interior of Cutting-Ant 



Hill 



88. Cave of the Cutting-Ant, Showing the Leaf-Combs 



89. Pride-of-China-Tree Stripped of Leaves on One Sid 



by Cutting-Ant 



90. An Underground Route of Cutting-Ants 



91. The Gate Closed ...... 



92. The Gate Open 



93. Preparing to Close the Nest .... 



94. An Emmet " Dumping" — A Mason Squad at Work 



95. A Patent Ant Exterminator .... 



96. The Cricket on the Hearth .... 



97. White Crickets, Male and Female 



98. Black Crickets ( (7)-?/Zi?«s »i».7e7') .... 



99. The Wliite Cricket's Serenade .... 



100. Dan's Ideal Cricket on the Hearth — Sarah Blows the 



Conch-shell for Dinner 



101. Katydids, Male and Female .... 



102. Cicada, Female and Male ; Locust ^dipoda Carolina 



103. The Music of Boyhood — A Reminiscence 



104. The Blue Church 



105- The Grasshopper's Dirge . . • . 



106. Agricultural Ants Engaged in Cutting Grass 



107. Front Yard Roads of Ants' Nests 



108. Ant Clearing in a Weed Forest 



109. Undergrade Ant-road in Fairraoiint Park 



110. Granaries, Showing Seeds and Stores . 



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