318 _ MIXED ANT-HILL 
On the day following, the Ash-coloured 
Ants guarded their door very assi- 
duously; they heaped up many pieces 
of stone, &c. to narrow it, and thus 
oppose the entrance of certain ants at- 
tracted thither by the odour of the 
honey. They went, also, in search of 
the pucerons. 
In the evening, the air being ex- 
tremely warm, and the sun shining upon 
the ant-hill, I saw the Amazons prepare 
for an expedition. ‘The whole army 
descended by means of the glazed canal. 
The signal being given, they set forward 
in an entire body, and fell upon a nest of 
Ash-coloured Ants, situated a few paces 
from the ruche. The Amazons re- 
turned with the success usually attend- 
ing these incursions. Each disposed of 
his load at the door of the artificial ant- 
hill, into which the Ash-coloured Ants 
immediately introduced it. ‘The warlike 
ants returned directly to carry off the 
rest of the larvee; and, as it was only a 
trifling distance to the scene of pillage 
