X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 

 ON THE RELATION OF ANTS TO PLANTS. 



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Flowers and insects — Ants not so imiwrtant 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 — Bijfsacus — Slipperj' surfaces — 

 Gentian, snowdrop, cyclamen — Concealment of honey — 

 Antirrhinum,, Linaria, Campanula, Banvnciilus, Lamiiivi, 

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

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

 Senccio, Linnaa, Polygonum, &c. — ]\Iilky 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 50 



CHAPTER IV. 

 RELATIONS TO OTHER ANI3IALS. 



Hunting ants — The Driver ants — Ecitons — Insects mimicking 

 ants — Enemies of ants — Parisites — Mites — Pliora — 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 — Stcnamma — Solenopsls 

 — Slave-making ants — Formica sanguinea — Polyergus — 

 Expeditions of Polyergus — Polyergus fed by the slaves — 

 Strongylognathns — Degradation of Strongylngnathus — A'uer- 

 gates — Explanation of the present state of Strongylognathvs 

 and Anergates — Progress among ants — Phases of life — 

 Hunting, pastoral, and agricultural species . . . G3 



CHAPTER V. 



BEHAVIOUR TO RELATIONS. 



Mr. Grote on ' Morality as a necessity of society ' — Behaviour 

 of ants to one another — Statements of previous writers : 



