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way, but released again in less than a minute. Shortly 

 afterwards one of the others was also seized, but let go 

 again almost immediately. At one o'clock they were 

 all right, and also at two. They had, howev^er, in the 

 meantime been more than once threatened, and even 

 momentarily seized, though they were never dragged 

 about as strangers would have been. At three o'clock 

 I found one of them dead ; but I think I must have 

 accidentally injured her, and I do not believe that she was 

 killed by the other ants, though I cannot speak quite 

 positively about it. The other two were quite at home, 

 and had been partly cleaned. At six one of them was 

 running about comfortably amongst the rest ; the other 

 I could not distinguish ; but certainly no ant was being 

 attacked. 



November 28. — I put in the last two ants from the 

 above-mentioned batch of pupae at noon. Like the 

 preceding, these ants were occasionally threatened, and 

 even sometimes attacked for a moment or two; but 

 the other ants soon seemed to find out their mistad^e, 

 and on the whole they were certainly treated as friends, 

 the attacks never lasting more than a few moments. 

 One of them was watched at intervals of half an hour 

 until 5 P.M. ; the other we could not distinguish after 

 3 P.M., the paint having been licked off; but we 

 should certainly have observed it had she been 

 attacked. 



On the whole, then, all the thirty-two ants belonging 

 to FoTTTiica fuaca and Lasius niger, removed from 



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