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the nests and placed in the strongest nest (with most brood) of 

 the other three; various ants examined it, several mouthed it, 

 then they left it and many ran over it, after several minutes an 

 ant carried it off to the new brood heap they were making, 

 owing to my letting light into the nest. So far it seemed they 

 were as friendly to it as its late hosts, this remains to be seen. 



Oit. iith. The alcon larva placed yesterday in a new nest 

 (after being 30 days — Sept. lO-Oct. 10 — in the previoust 

 nest) is found to be quite at home amongst the brood, the only 

 différence noted in its treatment by the ants, is that in the 

 excited effort to remove the brood, when light is let into the 

 nest, the alcon larva instead of being taken first, as has usually 

 been the • case in the two previous nests, was not touched till 

 about two-thirds of the brood had been removed — the threa 

 other larvae of alcon m the two old nests remain practically as 

 before. 



Oct. I2t]i. The transferred larva seems to be going well and 

 on good terms with his hosts. Took the second larva from the 

 other nest (with two alcon) and placed it m another nest, it 

 was at once carried to the brood nest and seemed at home there 

 some minutes later. 



Oct. i^th. Nests labelled i and 2 orignial nests with each 

 two larvae, now one each, one from each having been moved to 

 nests 3 and 4 each with one larva. Nest 5 has not yet had a 

 larva of alcon. 



The alcon larvae now in 3 and 4 are to-day carried off by 

 the ants preferentially as was and still is the case in nests i 

 and 2. The cooler weather (frosty mornings) seem to hâve 

 made ants and larvae less active, but yesterday an alcon was 

 seen folded round the front of a larva of M. scabrinodis with 

 its head in the ventral recess of the ant larva. It was covered 

 up at once but a few minutes later, it was seen to hâve left the 

 ant larva and was being carried off by an ant. Such disturbance 



