INDEX 



Abdomen of ants, anatomy of, 

 110. 



Aeronautic spiders, chapter xii., 

 182. 



Agalena noevia, 205. 



Agricultural ants, 4, 7, 22, 53; 

 early references to, S2; work- 

 ers of, 85; nests of, 8G; food of, 

 87, 95; granaries, 89; mode of 

 harvesting, 90, 91; kitchen- 

 middens of, 91 ; construction of 

 granaries and galleries, 92; 

 sorts of seeds harvested, 93; 

 mandible teeth worn down by 

 work, 94; artificial nests of, 

 95. 



Agricultviral Department, United 

 States, benefits of, 304, 311. 



Alleghany Mountains, 116. 



Amazon ants, 70. 



American Museum of Natural 

 History, 149, 159. 



American Spiders and their Spin- 

 ning - ivork (McCook's), 225, 

 227. 



Anelosinus socialis, 205. 



Anthridium, 170. 



Anthridium illustre, 171. 



Anthridium Texanum, 172. 



Ants, flying, 3; queen, 3; virgin 

 queens, 3; marriage flight of, 

 4, 5, 17; at play, 4, 22; work- 

 ers, 5; males, 6; un winging of 

 queens or dealation, 7; queen, 

 starting formicary, 8; callow 

 antlings, 8; depositing eggs, 

 9; queen's attendants, 10, II; 

 government without rulers, 12; 

 Ufe of queen, 12-14; foun- 

 dation of formicaries, 16; 



Lasius, mounds of, 19; slave- 

 making, 24; mound - making, 

 of Alleghanies, 26; rufus, 

 of Dakota, 27; sting of, 28; 

 I swarms of, 29; development of, 

 35; queen, caring for young, 36; 

 worker released from cocoon, 

 37; growth and development 

 of eggs, 38; collecting honey- 

 dew, 41; "cows" of, 41, 52; 

 soliciting aphides, 43; foraging, 

 48; nests under -ground, 49; 

 toilet habits of, 53; toilet 

 methods, 57, 58, 61; natural 

 massagerie, 62;. benevolence 

 of, 63; cleaning one another, 

 64, 65; slave-making, foray of, 

 71; ant-rice, 86; life in win- 

 ter, 112, 113; enemies of, 137; 

 cutting, of Texas and Cuba, 

 147; benefits to agriculture, 

 293. 



Ant-lion (Myrmeleon), larvae 

 state of, 129, 130 ; imago, 

 forms of, 130 ; trap or pitfall 

 of, 131; mode of preparing pit, 

 132, 1,33; mode of capturing 

 prey, 134, 135; how ants are 

 caught by, 136, 137; freeing 

 nests of pebbles, 137; cocoons 

 and larvtB, 138. 



Ant-rice, needle-grass, 86. 



Aphides, cared for by ants, 41; 

 yielding honeydew, 43, 49; 

 reared by ants from the egg, 

 50, 51. 



Apis mellifica, 157. 



Architecture, of honey ants' nest, 

 99; carpenter ants, 120. 



Argiope argyraspis, 243. 



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