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EXPERIMENTS TO TEST 



7.46 Ant A to larvae. 



7.55 „ 

 8. 3 



8. 8 

 8.19 

 8.24 „ 



8.39 



An ant at 7.42 {^^«"^ ^^^^ 



I L to I. 



» 7.47 



„ 7.48 



7.54 



7 57 



„ 9.10 found the 



larvae. 

 „ 9.30 went over L 

 to I. 



8.50 „ 

 9.12 



9.22 

 9.40 

 9.47 



9.55 „ 

 10.35 „ 



At 10.35 I imprisoned her till 12.30, when I put he> 

 again to the larvae. 



12.48 back to larvae. 



12.55 

 1. 

 1.15 

 1.20 



An ant at 12.58 went over L to i. 

 ?5 1. 1 „ „ 



1.10 



After this she did not come any more. During the 

 time she made, therefore, 25 visits to the larvae; 21 

 other ants came a distance of nearly 4 feet from the 

 nest and up to the point of junction within 2 inches of 



