46 TWO CHAPTERS ON ANTS. 



to which I patiently submit. When she has 

 chastised me sufficiently, she picks up the 

 pupa quietly, aud tries to make her escape. 



These ants move very gently, do not seem 

 at all excited or hurried, and as soon as they 

 reach the grass and clover they mount a 

 blade of grass or stem of clover, and there 

 they remain perfectly still, holding the pupa. 

 The assailants pass beneath them, hunting 

 over the ground, but not one, so for as I saw, 

 was captured from a stem of clover or from 

 a blade of grass, and sometimes a blade of 

 grass would bend quite low with its burden. 



The assailants, satisfied that the game is 

 gone, return to their own dominions. In 

 about an hour from the time these ants were 

 driven from home they begin to return, 

 coming slowly down from the grass, where 

 they have so patiently waited until the in- 

 vaders were gone, and carry the pupa3 di- 

 rectly back to the same opening from which 

 they came out. 



The slave -maker (Formica sanguinea) is 

 often confounded with the mound -builder 

 (Formica n//a), good observers seeing no dif- 

 ference in the appearance of the two species. 

 But the habits of F. rufa are very unlike our 

 slave -maker; the former are the greatest 

 workers among our ants, and they keep no 



