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After this they were not watclied any more. It will be observed 

 that the second ant made many more visits than the first — namely, 

 forty-two in about eleven hours, as against twenty-six in eleven 

 hours and a half. During this time two strangers came to the 

 larvfB in the cup they were visiting, and three to the other two 

 cups. 



The following case is still more striking. On July 11, at 11 a.m., 

 I put a F.Jlava to some pupse of the same species, but from a dif- 

 ferent nest. She made eighty-six journeys, each time carrying off 

 a pupa, with" the following intervals. Commencing 



