Iv 



3, As to power of communication.* 



4. Individual influence on character. 

 D. Intelligence and affection. 



6. Experiments on ants under chloroform and intoxicated. 



7. Recollection of friends. 



8. Experiments with ants of different nests. 



9. Contrast in behaviour of different kinds of ants. 



10. Suspected cannibalism. 



11. Experiments testing the senses, sight and hearing. 



12. Dependence on slaves. 



13. Division of labour, with a wonderful series of tables. 



14. Parthenogenesis in ants. 



.15. Parasites of, and on, Ants, with technical descriptions of a new 

 species of Phora, and a new genus allied thereto. 



An excellent coloured plate of the five species of ants experi- 

 mented upon accompanies this most interesting memoir. 



A memoir, by M. Collin de Plancy, on certain dipterous insects 

 parasitic on toads, appears in the 'Bulletin' of the Soc. Zool. de 

 France, 1877. The author gives a detailed account of the various 

 instances already published by different authors! of the occur- 

 rence of Muscideous parasites on these Batrachians, and describes 

 several other instances in which toads have been found with large 

 wounds under the eyes infested with dipterous larvse of the genus 

 Liicilia {L. Imfonivora), which he believes had laid their eggs in 

 already formed wounds. 



This memoir of M. de Plancy is followed by another, * Sur des 

 Dipteres Parasites de la Rana esculejita,' by M. E. Taton. In 



* The observations on this head clearly show that the ant experimented on had 

 announced to her friends the discovery of a supply of food, although she had not 

 told them the way to it. 



+ Moniez, in ' Bull. Scient. Hist, et Litter, du Departm. du Nord.' Fevrier, 1876. 



De Eorre, in ' Comptes Eendus,' Ser. ii., No. 30, p. G. 



M. Girard, in ' Bull. Sceanc. Soc. Ent. France,' Nov. 1876, Dec. 1876, Jan. 1877, 

 and May, 1877. 



Taton, in ' BuU. Sceanc. Soc. Ent. France,' May, 1877. 



Bole, in ' Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien.,' 1865, p. 20=1. 



Leli^vre, in ' Bull. Sc. Dep. du Nord,' Aug. & Sept. 1876. 



De la Fontaine, ' Reptiles,' Luxembourg edit., 1870, p. 37. 



Selys-Longchamps, in ' Soc. Ent. Beige,' 7 Oct. 1876. 



McLeay, in ' Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales,' vol. i., 1863. 



Another memoir on the existence of a Sarco2)hila parasitic on man, especially 

 children, and other animals. ' Horre Soc. Ent. Ross.,' and ' Soc. Linn, du Nord de 

 France,' 1 April, 1877, tome iii., p. 241. 



Lucas, in ' Ann. Soc. Eut. France,' 1851, Bui., p. Ixiii. 



