X CONTENTS, 



CHAPTER III. 

 ON THE RELATION OF ANTS TO FLANTS. 



Flowers and insects — Ants not so important in relation to 

 flowers as bees, but not without influence — Ants seldom 

 promote cross-fertilisation, and hence injurious to flowers — 

 Modes by which they are excluded — Belt — Kerner — 

 Aquatic plants — Moats — Dipnacus — Slippery surfaces-^ 

 Gentian, snowdir>;j, cyclamen — Concealaeut cf honey — 

 Antirrhinum, Lmaria, Campanula, Manunculus, Landum, 

 Primula, Geranium, &,c. — Protection of honey by thickets 

 of spines or hairs — Protection by viscid secretions — Silene, 

 Senecio, Linncea, Polygonum, &c. — ]\lilky juice — Lactuca — 

 Nectaries on leaves — Leaf-cutting ants — Ants as tree guards 

 — Importance of ants in destroying other insects — Har- 

 vesting ants — Solomon — The Misclma — Meer Hassan All — 

 Sykes — Moggridge — Agricultural ants — Lincecum — McCook 50 



CHAPTER IV. 



RELATIONS TO OTHER ANIMALS. 



Hunting ants — The Driver ants — Ecitons — Insects mimicking 

 ants — Enemies of ants — Parisites — Mites — Pliora — Domestic 

 animals of ants — Aphides — Eggs of Aphides kept through 

 the winter by ants — Blind beetles — Pets — Progress among 

 ants — Eelationsof ants to one another — Stenamma — Solenoj/sis 

 — Slave-making ants — Eormica saiiguinea — Polyeryus — 

 Expeditions of Polyergns — Polyergns fed by tlie slaves — 

 Strimgylognathus — Degradat ion of Strongylngnathus — Aner- 

 gates — Explanation of the present state of Strmigyloguathus 

 and Anerqates — Progress among ants — Phases of life — 

 Hunting, pastoral, and agricultural species . . 63 



CHAPTER V. 



BEHAVIOUR TO RELATIONS. 



Mr. Q rote on 'Morality as a necessity of society* — Behaviour 

 of ants to one another — Statements of previous writers: 



