352 POWER OF COMMUNICATION. 
No. 1. No. 2. 
7.49 
7.54 
8. 5 
8.13 
8.25 
8.31 
8.39 
8.44 
8.48 
Thus, during this period these two ants carried off 
respectively 62 and 67 larve; 10 strangers found the 
larvee, half of them only coming to the set visited by 
the ants under observation. This seems to show that 
most of them, at any rate, found the larve for them- 
selves. 
I will now pass to Lasius niger. 
September 27, 1875.—At 3.55 P.M. I put an ant of 
this species to some larve. She returned as follows :— 
4.3 5. 5 
4.11 5.10 
4.21 5.14 
4.25 5.18 
4.28 5.23 
4.31 5.29 
4.37 5.40 
4.40 5.43 
4.44 5.46 
4.48 5.50 
4.52 5.54 
4.56 5.59 
5. 0 
when she met with an accident. During this time no 
other ant came to the larve. 
On October 1, 1875, at 6.15 a.M., I put three speci- 
