6 Stopes & Hewitt, Tent-buiidivg Habits of the Ant. 



LITERATURE REFERRED TO. 



l8lO- HuKKK, p. : '• Recherrhes sur les Mueuis dcs Fourmis 

 indigenes." Paris, p. 198. 



l874' I'OKEL, A. " Les Fourmis de la Suisse." Zurich. 



1894 PR.\NDE.s, G. " Die Blattlaus und der Honigbau." 

 Zeitschr. f. Naturwiss., vol. 66, pp. y8 — 103. 



1906 Wheeler, \V. M. "The Habits of the 'Pent-building 

 Ant [Crematogaster lineolata Say)." Bull. Amer. A/us. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 22, pp. i — 18, 3 figs., 6 pis. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 

 Ilex integra bearing tents of Lasius nigcr L. 



A. Stump cut off near to the ground, leafy twigs sprouting from 



it. 



b. bud of leaves projecting from a ' tent.' l)r. new 

 leaves beginning to be rolled, c. tent. g.g. covered 

 galleries of detritus. //. tips of leaves projecting 

 from the tent. 11. normal leaf. s. leaves which 

 are inrolled, the space underneath being enclosed 

 in detritus, 



B. Base of a stem which reached a height of 30 feet : it had no 



branches near to the ground and no ants were found 

 upon it. 



(Tlie liguie was drawn from llic livini; .spcciiueii /;/ iitii by M. C. S.) 



