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INDEX. 



ARI 



Aristiffn olignntha, 'ant-rice,' 61 



Artiiici;il nests for ants, 3, 1G4 



Ateiickiis j/ilidarius, anecdote of, 

 154 



Atrophy of the imaginal discs of 

 the ant-workers, 12; of tlie 

 sting in Formica, 1 5 ; of the 

 eyes of Platy a rthru^ and Beckia, 

 75 



Atta barhara, the eye in, 11; 

 variety of workers amonp, 19 



• — gtructor, its treatment of col- 

 lected grain, 61 



— testaeeo-pilosa, experiment with, 

 as to power of communication, 

 177 



Attachment among ants, 94 



Auditory organs, structures in ant- 

 antenniB probably serve as, 226 



Australian honey ant, 49; de- 

 scribed, 428 



I)ATES, Mr., quoted a? to the 

 y live kinds of workers in 

 Saiiba, 22 ; as to ant-play, 29 ; 

 as to the use made by ants of 

 leaves, 57 ; as to the armies of 

 Eciton, 65 ; as to leaf -cutting 

 by Saiiba, 237 

 Bntrixun, rarely more than one 

 specimen of, found in an ants' 

 nest, 78 

 Bec.lda, one of the ant-guests, 74 

 Bees, occasional fertility of 

 workers among, 36 ; means of 

 recognition among, 126 ; their 

 sense of hearing, 221, 290 ; ob- 

 servations with, 274 ; difficulty 

 in finding tlieir way, 278 ; their 

 behaviour in a strange hive, 281; 

 their recklessness, 285 ; their 

 want of mutual affection, 286 ; 

 ^ heir influence on the develop- 

 ment of flowers, 51, 201 , their 

 colour sense, 291 ; their prefer- 

 ence for blue, 294 310 ; experi- 

 ments on communication among 

 ihem, 276, 401 



CAR 



Beetles kept in ants' nests, 74^ 76, 

 90 



Belt, Mr. Thomas, quoted as to 

 Horal defences against anfs, 51 ; 

 as to defence agair.st leaf-cut- 

 ting ants, 57 ; on the raids of 

 Eciton, 66; on an ant-liko 

 spider, 66 



Bert, Prof. Paul, as to the limits 

 of vision, 219 



Bichromate of potash, experiments 

 with, 211 



Bisulpliide of carbon, experiments 

 with, 208 ; 



Blanchard, M., quoted as to the 

 origin of nests, HO 



Blindness of Anomma and Eciton 

 65 ; of Plati/arthrus and BecMa- 

 75 



Blue, the favourite colour of I ees, 

 294. 304, 310; flowers, their lite 

 origin, 308 



Bonnet, M., on aphis eggs, 70 



Bonnier, M., on inditt'erence to 

 colour among bees, 302 



Bothnomijrmex meridionalis, the 

 eye in, 1 1 



Brazil, blind hunting ants of, 65 ; 

 use made by the Indians in, of 

 tlie tenacity of an ant-biie, 96 



Bnclihe dncti/loides, seed of, col- 

 lected by ants, 61 



Biichner, Dr., as to Texan harvest- 

 ing ants, 62 



Burmeister, on the power of recog- 

 nition among insect.^, 126 



Butterfly, ants seen licking the 

 larva of, 68 



ryAMPONOTUS inflatns, d©- 

 ^ scribed, 128 

 — litjniperduit, the eye in, 11 ; 



communication among 158 

 Captivity, mode of keeping ants 



in, 2, 3 ; a wasp in, 315 

 Caterpillars killed by ants, 59, 65 

 Cariiophyllacece, correlation o/ 



form and colour in, 309 



