X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 



ON THE RELATION OF ANTS TO PLANTS. 



PAGH 



Flowers and insects — Ants not so important in relation to 

 flowers as bees, but not without influence — Ants seldom 

 promote cross-fertilisation, and hence injurious to flowers — 

 Modes by which they are excluded — Belt — Kerner — 

 Aquatic plants — Moats — Dii)sacris — Slippery surfaces — 

 Gentian, snowdrop, cyclamen — Concealment of honey — 

 Antirrhinum, Linaria, Cainpamila, Itamtncuhts, Laminm, 

 Prinmla, Geranium, &c. — Protection of honey by thickets 

 of spines or hairs — Protection by viscid secretions — Silene, 

 Senecio, Linncea, Polygonum, &c. — Milky juice — Lactuca — 

 Nectaries on leaves — Leaf-cutting ants — Ants as tree guards 

 — Importance of ants in destroying other insects — Har- 

 vesting ants— Solomon — The Mischna — Meer Hassan Ali — 

 Sykes — Moggridge — Agricultural ants — Lincecum — McCook 60 



CHAPTER IV. 

 RELATIONS TO OTHER ANIMALS. 



Hunting ants — The Driver ants — Ecitons — Insects mimicking 

 ants— Enemies of ants — Parisites — Mites — Phora — Domestic 

 animals of ants — Aphides — Eggs of Aphides kept through 

 the winter by ants — Blind beetles — Pets — Progress among 

 ants — Relations of ants to one another— Stenamma — Solenopsis 

 — Slave-making ants — Formica saii guinea — Pohjenjns — 

 Expeditions of Pohjcrgus — Polyergus fed by the slaves — 

 Strongijlognathus — Degradation of Strovgylag nathns — Aner- 

 gates — Explanation of the present state of Strungylognathvs 

 and Amrgates — Progress among ants — Phases of life — 

 Hunting, pastoral, and agricultural species . . .63 



CHAPTER V. 



BEHAVIOUR TO RELATIONS. 



Mr, G rote on ' Morali^^y as a necessity of society' — Dehaviour 

 of ants to one another — Statements of previous writers : 



