CONTENTS. 



Raft formed by American Ants 



Blind Ants .... 



Night proceedings of Ants 



Proceedinc^s during rain 



Experiments ... 



History of a labouring Ant, by M. Hiiber 



Glazed Artificial Foimicaries 



Secticn of a Mason-Ani's 



Experiments by J. R. . 



CHAPTER XV. 



Structures of the Wood-Ant5, or Pismires 



Materials employed . 



Coping of their nest 



Interior structure 



Glazed Formicary for experiments 



Their proceedings at night-fall . 

 Carpenter-Ants 



Emmets, or Jet Ants 



Their galleries in Trees 



Extremely populous colony at Brockley 



Dusky-Ai!ts 

 Foreign Ants . . . . 



{?ugar-Ants of the West-Indies 



CHAPTER XVr. 



Structures of White- Ants, or 'I'ermites 



Their extraordinary comparative height 



Their miriing operations 

 The Warrior (Termes bellicosiis) . 



Used as delicate food 



Commencement of their nests 



Royal chamber 



Nurseries 



Galleries and covert ways 

 Turret-building White-Ants 



Siiigidar form of their nests 

 White-Anls of trees and timber 



Deatb-Watch 



CHAPTER XVil. 



Spinning-Caterpillars 



Manifold advantages of spinning 



Structure of Xhe'n \cg?> and feet 



Side spiracles (or breathing 



Internal stmcture 



Structure of the silk-tube 



Mode of spinning described by La Pluche 

 Silk-Worms .... 



