WITH THE PUCERONS. 995 
information I had acquired of their way 
of life, so as to nourish, at my own resi- 
dence, one of their colonies. I placed 
the ants in a glazed box, with their 
pucerons, leaving in the earth I gave 
them the roots of some plants, whose 
branches vegetated without. I watered 
from time to time the ant-hill, and in 
this manner, the plants, the pucerons, and 
the ants themselves, found in this appa- 
ratus abundant nourishment. ‘The ants 
made no attempt to escape; they ap- 
peared to have nothing to desire; they 
took care of their larve and females, 
with the same affection as in their own 
nest; they also paid great attention to 
the pucerons, and never injured them. 
The latter did not seem to labour under 
the slightest fear; they allowed them, 
selves to be carried from place to place, 
and rested in the spot chosen by their 
guardians. When the ants wished to 
displace them, they began caressing them 
with their antenne, hoping thereby, to 
imduce them to abandon the roots, or to 
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