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and the subserviency or servitude of one race or rank to 

 another. 



7. Judicial punishment of disobedience or rebellion. 



8. Forethought or providence, real or apparent. 



9. Practice of agriculture, including harvesting and 

 storage. 



10. Eespect for, including interment of, the dead. 



11. Mourning in bereavement, or its semblance. 



12. Funeral or other ceremonies, including processions. 



13. Use of natural tools or instruments and weapons. 



14. The passion of rage or anger. 



15. Imagination and its derangement in delusion e.g. 

 in the results of braidism. 



Of the Neuroptera, the Termites or Termitidee, or white 

 ants, exhibit the same kind, and almost the same range, of 

 mental phenomena as the true ants. Some of them, for 

 instance, are represented as being agriculturists, cultivating 

 fungi in their subterranean galleries, on the walls of the 

 nurseries for the young. They exhibit foresight in the 

 construction of long clay chimneys for communication with 

 air or land, or both, during inundations (Houzeau). They 

 establish colonies (Kirby and Spence). There are ranks in 

 their societies, with corresponding division of labour (West- 

 wood). They search for food, take care of eggs and young ; 

 recognise and perform certain duties and obligations ; have 

 a sort of worship even in the adoration of their queen. They 

 have an ideal and ideas of fecundity in connection with this 

 queen. Their soldiers exhibit wonderful pertinacity, and 

 are capable of self-sacrifice (Michelet). Their edifices or 

 constructive works include galleries and corridors, maga- 

 zines, nurseries, royal chambers and hall, offices, ordinary 

 rooms and egg rooms, floors and ceilings, pillars, and other 

 appurtenances. 



Many of the Coleoptera beetles are distinguished for 

 their cautiousness. They experiment by touch, and thus 

 acquire convictions of safety or the reverse. They test the 

 strength of materials (Wa,tson and Berkeley). They counter- 

 feit death when alarmed, in danger manifesting remarkable 

 self-possession or presence of mind. They ask and obtain 



