430 



INDEX. 



FRA 



Franklin, Dr., as to power of com- 

 munication among ants, 155 



Friends, behaviour of ants to, 97, 

 101 ; recognition of, 119, 333 



GALLERIES, covered, made by 

 Eciton, 65 



Galton, Mr. Francis, on domestic 

 animals kept as pets, 77 



Games among ants, 28 



Gelieu, M., on means of recogni- 

 tion among bees, 126 



Gentians, colours of, 310 



Glasses, experiments on ants with 

 coloured, 186, &c., 406 



Gould Mr., on the emergence of 

 the imago, 8 ; on ant-games, 

 28 ; on the eg^s of aphides, 69 



Goureau, M., on the sound pro- 

 duced by Mutilla, 229 



!Jraber, Dr. von, on the sense 

 organs in the legs of Gryllus, 

 231 ; on colour-sense in ants, &c., 

 403 ; on sont*e of smell in ants, 409 



Grain collected and stored by ants, 

 26, 60 ; germination of, prevented 

 by ants, 61 



Gredler, Dr., anecdote of ant-intel- 

 ligence told by, 237 



Grimm's observations on Dinarda, 

 76 



Grote, Mr., quoted as to the neces- 

 sity of morality in societies, 93 



Growth of insects takes place 

 during the larval stage, 8 



Guests of ants, 74, 399 



Gryllus, sense organs in tibiae of ,231 



HABITATIONS of ants, 24 

 Hagens, von, quoted as to 



myrniecophilous beetles, 77 ; 



on the slave-making of Strmi^y- 



lognathvn, 85 ; on A nergatrt, 86 ; 



his suggestions as to Strongy- 



lognathu*, 87 

 Hairs of plants as defences against 



insects, 65 

 Barvesting ants, 59, 92 ; in the 



Sootb of Europe and Texas, 61 



fNS 



Hatred a stronger passion with 

 ants than affection, 106 



Head of ant described, 10; large 

 size of, in workers of certain 

 species, 20, 22 



Hearing, sense of, among insects, 

 221 ; possibly present in ants, 

 226 ; among bees, 290 ; among 

 wasps, 313 



HetcBi-ius xesquicomis, in ants' 

 nests, n ; H. ferrugineus, 402 



Hicks, Dr. J. Braxton, on the 

 antennae of insects, 227 



Hildebrand on the variations of 

 blue flowers, 310 



Honey, love of ants for, 51 ; of 

 aphis, 69 ; experiments on ants 

 entangled in, 98 



Honey ants, 19, 48 ; independently 

 originated in Mexico and Texas, 

 49; of Australia described, 3'JO 



Hope, Mr., quoted as to harvest- 

 ing ants, 60 



Horse ant, see F. nifa 



Huber, as to ants playing, 28 ; as 

 to the formation of a nest, 30 ; 

 on the care taken by ants of 

 aphis eggs, 70 ; as to slavery 

 among ants, 81 ; as to their re- 

 cognition of frieniis, 120; as to 

 their deafness, 221 



Hunting ants, 59, 63, 91 



Hgdiiojihytum /<trmiearum, its as- 

 sociation with ants, 58 



Hymeiioptera, common origin of 

 the sting in *he, 15 ; the social, 

 means of ccmmunication be- 

 tween, 153 



INDIVIDUAL differences be- 

 tween ants, 95, 101 ; between 

 bees, 279 



Industry of auts, 27; of wasps, 

 321, 383 



Insects, their metamorphoses, 8; 

 their agency in fertili.«ation of 

 flowers, 50, 291 ; mimicking ants, 

 66 ; kept by ants, 73 ; recogni- 

 tion among, 126 ; their viaioot 



