RAIDS OF THE AMAZON ANTS 23 
course of the summer this relation wears rather 
thin. One is tempted to recall the way in which 
the servants carry their strayed mistresses home, 
or the influence of evil communications seen in the 
fierceness which sometimes infects the timid Brown 
Ants, and leads them to share in the slave-making. 
But our last note on this weird under-world— 
full of warning and caricature—must be the sad 
question whether these intrepid Amazons are 
doomed in the course of evolution to the degenera- 
tion which has beset other emmets who have played 
with their independence. 
