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INDEX. 



LES 



Lespes, M., on eggs laid by work- 

 ers, 35 ; on grain stored by ants, 

 61 ; on the feeding of Lome- 

 clmsa by ants, 76 ; on the 

 domestic animals of ants, 90 



Leuckart, his experiments on ant- 

 intelligence, 238 



Life, duration of, among ants, 8 



Light, dislike of ants to, 2, 186 ; 

 as aid to sense of direction 

 among ants, 268 ; bees attracted 

 by, 284 



Ligurian queen bee, introduction 

 of a, 287 



Limits of vision with ants, experi- 

 ments as to, 199-206 ; in Daph- 

 nia, 219 



Lincecum, Dr., as to Texan har- 

 vesting ants, 62 



Limifeus quoted as to aphides, 67 



Locust, ants apparently deceived 

 by a leaf-like, 66 



LomecJivsa fed by ants, 76 



Long, Col., as to the sense of 

 hearing among certain ants, 226 



Longevity of workers of Lasivs 

 nigcr, 38, 42; of queen ants, 9, 40 



Lowne, Mr., quoted as to tlie func- 

 tions of ocelli, 183 



Lund, M., quoted as to the intel- 

 ligence of ants, 236 



Lyetrna 'psendargiolua, ants seen 

 licking the larva of, 68 



MCCOOK, Mr., quoted as to 

 the adoption of a queen by 

 Crematogaster, 34 ; as to honey- 

 ants, 48 ; as to the grain-fields 

 of the Texan harvesting ant, 62 ; 

 as to ants licking the larva of a 

 butterfly, 68 ; on recognition by 

 smell among ants, 127 



Miirkel quoted as to insects kept 

 by F. Tvfa, 74 



Maimonides as to the ownership of 

 ant-stores of grain, 59 I 



Males only produced by eggs laid | 

 by workers among bees, wasps, j 

 and ants, 36, 37 ; of Anergatcs j 



MYR 



wingless, 86 ; of Tomognathns 

 wingless, 87 note 



Mandibles of ants, 11 ; pointed in 

 Polyergiis, 18 ; but toothless, 

 82 ; sabre-like in S. Ilnicri, 84 



Marking ants, bees, and wasps, 

 methods of, 5 



Meer Hassan Ali, as to harvesting 

 ants, 60 



Mental powers of ants difiEer from 

 those of men in degree rather 

 than in kind, 181 



Metamorphoses undergone by in- 

 sects, 8 



' Metamorphoses of Insects,' 

 quoted, 30 



Mexico, honey-pot ants in, 19, 47 



Michael, Mr., description of Uro- 

 poda by, 429 



Microphone, experiment with, 225 



Mimicry, protective, instances of, 

 66 



Mischna, rules in, respecting ant- 

 hoards of grain, 59 



Mites, ants "infested by, 26, 98; 

 new species in nests of Lasiiis 

 flaws, 429 



Mocquerj's, M., on the tenacity of 

 the bite of the ant, 96 



Moggridge, Mr., on harvesting 

 ants, 61 



Morality among ants, question as 

 to, 93 ; among bees, 285 



Mosaic theory of the vision of com- 

 pound eyes, 184 



Moseley, Mr. H. N., quoted as to 

 the connection between ants 

 and certain epiphytes, 58 



Mouth of ant described, 11 



Miiller, his observations on Cla- 

 riger, 76 ; on the mosaic theory 

 of vision, 184 ; on the colour 

 sense in bees, 307 ; on blue 

 flowers, 310 



Mushrooms grown by ants, 57 



Myrmcciva Latreillii, the eye in, 

 11 ; their mode of defence, 16 : 

 said to be phlegmatic in disposi- 

 tion, 27 



