174: RELATION BETWEEN ANTS. 
rapidity, the warm space. When they 
saw other ants, they approached them, 
moved about their antennz with singu- 
lar quickness, and then immediately left 
them. ‘They appeared desirous to re- 
mount under the bell-glass; they went 
even to the border of the table, but re- 
tained, without doubt, by the mild tem- 
perature they experienced in the frame, 
they often returned to it; they took, at 
length the measure of mounting into the 
upper story. I knew enough of the 
habits of ants to be well aware they were 
only gone to intimate to their compa- 
nions this heat, to which they attached 
such value. In short, I presently saw 
two descend into the frame, carrying in 
their mouths two labourers, whom they 
deposited in the warmest place; they 
then returned immediately into the up- 
per part of the ruche. 'The new arrivals, 
after having warmed themselves, mount- 
ed also under the glass, when, in a few 
minutes after, I saw the whole four re- 
descend, each bearing another ant sus- 
