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INDEX. 



Fit A 



Franklin, Dr., as to power of com- 

 munication among ants, 155 



Friends, behaviour of ants to, 97, 

 101 ; recognition of, 119, 333 



GALLERIES, covered, made by 

 Eciton, 65 



Galton, Mr. Francis, on domestic 

 animals kept as pets, 77 



Games among ants, 28 



Gelieu, M., on means of recogni- 

 tion among bees, 12(? 



Gentians, colours of, 310 



Glasses, experiments on ants with 

 coloured, 186, &c. 



Gould, Mr., on the emergence of 

 the imago, 8 ; on ant-games, 

 28 ; on the egjis of aphides, 69 



Goureau, M., on the sound pro- 

 duced by Mntilla, 229 



Graber, Dr. von, on the sense 

 organs in the legs of Gryllns, 

 231 



Grain collected and stored by ants, 

 26, 60 ; germination of , prevented 

 by ants, 61 



Gredler, Dr., anecdote of ant-intel- 

 ligence told by, 237 



Grimm's observations on Dinarda, 

 76 



Grote, Mr., quoted as to the ne- 

 cessity of morality in societies, 

 93 



Growth of insects takes place 

 during the larval stage, 8 



Guests of ants, 74 



Gryllus,sense organs in tibite of, 231 



HABITATIONS of ants, 24 

 Hagens, von, quoted as to 



myrmecophilous beetles, 77 ; 



on the slave-making of Strongy- 



lognathiis, 85 ; on Anergates, 86 ; 



his suggestions as to Strongy- 



lognathus, 87 

 Hairs of plants as defences against 



insects, 55 

 Harvesting ants, .'^9, 92 ; in the 



South of Europe and Texas, CI 



Hatred a stronger passion with 

 ants than affection, 106 



Head of ant described, 10 ; large 

 size of, in workers of certain 

 species, 20, 22 



Hearing, sense of, among insects, 

 221 ; possibly present in ants, 

 226 ; among bees, 290 ; among 

 wasps, 313 



Hetcerius scsquicornis, in ants' 

 nests, 77 



Hicks, Dr. J. Braxton, on the 

 antenniB of insects, 227 



Hildebrand on the variations of 

 blue flowers, 310 



Honey, love of ants for, 51 ; of 

 aphis, 69 ; experiments on ants 

 entangled in, 98 



Honey ants, 19, 47 ; independently 

 originated in Mexico and Texas, 

 49 ; of Australia described, 428 



Hope, Mr., quoted as to harvest- 

 ing ants, 60 



Horse ant, see F. rufa 



Huber, as to ants playing, 28 ; as 

 to the formation of a nest, 30 ; 

 on the care taken by ants of 

 aphis eggs, 70 ; as to slavery 

 among ants, 81 ; as to their re- 

 cognition of friends, 120; as to 

 their deafness, 221 



Hunting anis, 59, 63, 91 



Hydnophytuni formicarwm, its as- 

 sociation with ants, 58 



Hymenoptera, common origin of 

 the sting in the, 15 ; the social, 

 means of communication be- 

 tween, 153 



INDIVIDUAL differences be- 



-L tween ants, 95, 101 ; between 

 bees, 279 



Industry of ants, 27; of wasps, 

 321, 421 



Insects, their metamorphoses, 8 ; 

 their agency in fertilisation of 

 flowers, 50, 291 ; mimicking ants, 

 66 ; kept by ants, 73 ; recogni- 

 tion among, 126 ; their vision, 



