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INDEX. 



LES 



Lespes, M., on eggs laid by work- 

 ers, 35 ; on grain stored by ants, 

 61 ; on the feeding of Lome- 

 chusa by ants, 76 ; on the 

 domestic arimals of ants, 90 



Leuckart, his experiments on ant- 

 intelligence, 238 



Life, duration of, among ants, 8 



Light, dislike of ants to, 2, 186 ; 

 as aid to sense of direction 

 among ants, 268 ; bees attracted 

 by, 284 



Ligurian queen bee, introduction 

 of a, 287 



Limits of vision with ants, experi- 

 ments as to, 199-206 ; in Daph- 

 nia, 219 



Lincecum, Dr., as to Texan har- 

 vesting ants, 62 



Linnaeus quoted as to aphides, 67 



Locust, ants apparently deceived 

 by a leaf-like, 66 



Lomechii&a fed by ants, 76 



Long, Col., as to the sense of 

 hearing among certain ants, 226 



Longevity of workers of Lathu 

 niger, 38, 42; of queen ants, 9, 40 



Lowne, Mr., quoted as to the func- 

 tions of ocelli, 183 



Lund, M., quoted as to the intel- 

 ligence of ants, 236 



Lyccena pseudargiolus, ants seen 

 licking the larva of, 68 



MCCOOK, Mr., quoted as to 

 the adoption of a queen by 

 Orematogaster, 34 ; as to honey- 

 ants, 48 ; as to the grain-fields 

 of the Texan harvesting ant, 62 ; 

 as to ants licking the larva of a 

 butterfly, 68 ; on recognition by 

 smell among ants, 127 



Markel quoted as to insects kept 

 by F. nifa, 74 



Maimonides as to the ownership of 

 ant-stores of grain, 69 



Males only produced by eggs laid 

 by workers among bees, wasps, 

 and ant., 3fi, 37 ; of Aitergates 



MYR 



wingless, 8fi ; of Tomognatltut 

 wingless, 87 note 



Mandibles of ants, 11 ; pointed in 

 Polyergus* 18 ; but toothless, 

 82 ; sabre-like in S. Huberi, 84 



Marking ants, bees, and wasps, 

 methods of, 5 



Meer Hassan Ali, as to harvesting 

 ants, 60 



Mental powers of ants differ from 

 those of men in degree rather 

 than in kind, 181 



Metamorphoses undergone by in- 

 sects, 8 



' Metamorphoses of Insects,' 

 quoted, 30 



Mexico, honey-pot ants in, 19, 47 



Michael, Mr., description of Uro- 

 poda by, 429 



Microphone, experiment with, 225 



Mimicry, protective, instances of, 

 66 



Mischna, rules in, respecting ant- 

 hoards of grain, 59 



Mites, ants infested by, 26, 98; 

 new species in nests of Las-lus 

 fiamts, 429 



Mocquerys, M., on the tenacity of 

 the bite of the ant, 96 



Moggridge, Mr., on harvesting 

 ants, 61 



Morality among ants, question as 

 to, 93 ; among bees, 285 



Mosaic theory of the vision of com- 

 pound eyes, 1 84 



Moseley, Mr. H. N., quoted as to 

 the connection between ants 

 and certain epiphytes, 58 



Mouth of ant described, 11 



Miiller, his observations on Cla- 

 viger, 76 ; on the mosaic theory 

 of vision, 184 ; on the colour 

 sense in bees, 307 ; on blue 

 flowers, 310 



Mushrooms grown by ants, 57 



Myrmecina Latreillii, the eye in, 

 11 ; their mode of defence, 16 ; 

 said to be phlegmatic in disposi- 

 tion, 27 



