28 Ants. 



Then there are some insects, such as the caterpillar 

 of that beautiful beetle, the rosechafer, which find a 

 congenial place of residence among the collection 

 of bits of stick, &c., with which certain species of 

 ants make their nests. 



II. Another class of ant guests are those which 

 reside with the ants actually in their galleries 

 and chambers, but which the latter never touch. 

 Of these the commonest in England are a species 

 for which I have proposed the name Beckia. They 



Fig. 8. WHITE WOODLOUSE (Platyarthrus hofftnanseggti). + 10. 



are active bustling little beings, and I have kept 

 hundreds, I may say thousands, in my nests. They 

 run about in and out among the ants, keeping their 

 antennae in a perpetual state of vibration. Another 

 very common species is a sort of white woodlouse 

 (fig. 8). Both of these, from living constantly in the 

 dark, have become blind ; I say " have become," 



