ILLUSTRATIONS 



FAGS 



HENRY C. Mccook Frontispiece 



PLAYGROUND OF YOUNG ANT QUEENS 7 



A QUEEN ANT AND HER CIRCLE OF ATTENDANTS 10 



A WANDERING QUEEN FORCED HOME BY HER COURTIERS . . 13 



MARRIAGE FLIGHT OF ANTS 17 



SURFACE MOUNDS OF A MASON ANT (lASIUS) 19 



AT PLAY IN THEIR PARK 22 



A NEST OF MOUND-MAKING ANTS OF THE ALLEGHANIE3 . . 26 



A MARRIAGE FLIGHT OF WINGED CARPENTER ANTS .... 31 



ANTS COLLECTING HONEYDEW FROM AN APHID HERD ... 41 



PORTION OF AN ANTS'-NEST 44 



A WORKER ANT DRAWING A RATION OF HONEYDEW FROM A 



REPLETE 46 



ANTs'-NEST UNDERNEATH A FLAT STONE 49 



AN EMMET SHEPHERDESS CARRYING ONE OF HER APHID FLOCK 51 



PART OF AN ant's FORE LEG, SHOWING ITS TOILET APPARATUS 55 



TOILET ACCESSORIES OF ANTS 56 



COMBING THE HEAD AND THE BACK HAIR 59 



ODD TOILET ATTITUDES 61 



ANTS GIVING A FRIENDLY TONGUE BRUSH TO THEIR FELLOWS 63 



AN ACROBATIC BATH 65 



COMBING THE ANTENNA 67 



A SLAVE-MAKER RETURNING FROM A RAID CARRYING AN 



ANTLING, AND WITH A SEVERED HEAD CLINGING TO A LEG 69 

 A slave-makers' raid — FIGHTING ON THE OUTSKIRTS ... 73 

 SLAVE-MAKERS, WITH THEIR PLUNDER, LEAVING A SACKED CITY 77 

 SCENE IN A HARVEST-FIELD ANTS HARVESTING BUFFALO- 

 GRASS 85 



A DISK COVERED WITH A CROP OF ANT-RICE 86 



HORIZONTAL SECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL ANT's NEST . . 89 

 CROSS-SECTION THROUGH AN AGRICULTURAL ANt's NEST . . 92 

 EXAMPLES OF ABRADED DENTITION OF THE MANDIBLES OF AG- 

 RICULTURAL ANTS 94 



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