8IE JOHN LUBBOCK ON BEES, WABPS, AND ANTS. 239 



At 9.34 she came back, and at 9.40 went ; 

 9.49 „ 10 



10.11 „ 10.20 „ 



10.27 „ 10.36 „ 



10.44 „ 10.52 „ 



12.52 „ 12.54 „ 



1. 3 „ 1.20 „ 



1.30 „ 1.41 „ 



1.51 „ 2. 6 „ 



after whicli I was unable to go on watching. 

 Another ant the same morning 



came to the honey at 6.55 a.m., at 7. 4 went away. 

 Eeturned at 7.10 „ 7.14 „ 



7.'34 „ 7.36 



7.45 „ 7.50 



„ 8. 2 „ 8. 7 „ 



8.17 „ 8.22 



„ 8.31 „ 8.36 „ 



8.44 „ 8.58 



8.59 „ 9 



'after which she came back no more. During this time fifteen 

 others had come to the honey. 



That ants have a certain power of communication has been 

 proved by Huber and other observers. Several striking cases are 

 mentioned by M. Forel. Por instance (op. cit. p. 297), an army 

 of Amazon ants, on an expedition in search of slaves, attacked a 

 nest o? Formica rufiharbis. In a few seconds (quelques secondes) 

 the dome of the nest was covered with JF. rufiharbis, which rushed 

 out to defend their house. 



On another occasion he placed a number of Tetramorinm cms- 

 pitum about four inches from a colony of JPheidole pallidula. 

 "En un clin d'oeil," he says (p. 384), "I'alarme fut repandue, et 

 des centaines de Pheidole se jeterent au devant de I'ennemi." 



Again, he (p. 349) placed some earth containing a number of 

 Tetramorinm about four inches from a nest of StrongylognatJius 

 Suheri. Several combats took place ; but after the lapse of a few 

 minutes (quelques minutes) a whole army of S. Suheri emerged 

 and attacked the intruders. 



On another occasion, some Amazon ants (p. 301) were search- 

 ing in vain for a nest of Formica rufiharhis. After a while some 

 of them found the nest. "Immediately" (aussit6t), he says, "a 



