B44, RELATION OF ANTS 
Yellow Ants, and of a particular species. 
On opening the ant-hill, I discovered se- 
veral chambers, containing a great num- 
ber of brown eggs, the ants were ex- 
tremely jealous of them, carrying them 
away, and quickly too, to the bottom of 
the nest, disputing and contending for 
them with a zeal which left me no doubt ~ 
of the strong attachment with which 
they regard them. | 
Desirous of conciliating their interests, 
as well as my own, I took the ants and 
their treasure, and placed them in such 
a manner that I might easily observe 
them. These eggs were never abandon- 
ed. The ants took the same care of 
them as the former. ‘The following day 
I saw one of these eggs open, and a pu- 
ceron fully formed, having a large trunk, 
quit it. I knew it to be a puceron of the 
oak: the others were disclosed a few 
days after, and the greater number in my 
presence. They set immediately about 
sucking the juice from some branches of 
the tree I gave them, and the ants now 
