356 INDEX. 



PA.UI. 



CHAPTER V. 



ANTS IN HISTORY ">4 70 



Arabia Jewish Scriptures Misbna Hesiod Horace 

 Virgil Plautus Pliny JElianus Alclrovandus 

 La Fontaine Plutarch The Ant Republic Infe- 

 riority of Males and Fertile Females Wedding Flight 

 Queens Care of Young Larv<%> Xymph,-i- 

 Young Ants Their Education Equality of Ants 

 Working Queens. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 ANT ARCHITECTURE 71 89 



The Ant-heap Huber's Description of a Nest Method 

 of Building Variety and Adaptation to Circum- 

 stances Nests in Trees Nests of Harvesting Ants 

 Intelligence under Difficulties .Doors, Sentries, and 

 Methods of Defence of Nests Changes of Dwelling 

 Ants in New South Wales. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 ROAD-MAKING , 90101 



Covered Ways De'pots Colonies of many Nests Ant- 

 town in Pennsylvania Working at Night Marching 

 in Africa Sa-ubas in South America Umbrella Ants 

 in Central America Cutting Ants Tunnels of Sa- 

 ubas Plundering Stores. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 HARVESTING A NTS 102115 



Gathering Provisions Rubbish Heaps Preventing 

 Germination of Corn Plundering Mistakes No\\- 

 Indian Ants Mexican Agricultural Ants. 



CHAPTER IX. 

 CATTLE AND MILKING 110127 



Aphides : Shutting them up Milking them Crossing 

 birdlime, etc., to get at them Forming a colony 

 J/ i/rmecophila Honey Ants. 



CHAPTER X. 

 INTELLIGENCE AND LANGUAGE 128 135. 



Intelligence in reaching Stores of Food Fine Scent 

 Communication by Antenna; Ants in Ornotepe with 

 Dead Birds In a Monastery with Sugar. 



