INDEX. 
ABD 
BDOMEN of ant described, 10, 
13; of the Mexican honey 
ant, 19, 47 
Acacia with hollow thorns in- 
habited by ants, 57 
Affection less powerful than 
hatred among ants, 106; absence 
of, among bees, 286 
Agricultural ants, 61, 92 
Aldrovandus quoted as to ants, 61 
Amazon ants, see Polyergus 2u- 
Sescens 
Amber, an intermediate form of 
ant preserved in, 68 
Analogies between ant societies 
and human, 91 
André quoted as to Platyarthrus, 
75; as to the slaves of F. san- 
guinea, 80 
Anrrgates, 85; no workers among 
them, 86; degraded condition 
of, 89 
An'mal food, queens hatched in 
an artificial nest supplied with, 
40 
Angraecum sesquipedale, length of 
flowers of, 52 
Anomma arcens, the Driver ant, 
described, 20, 63; their blind- 
ness, 65 
Ants, three families of, 1; four 
, periods cf life in, 6; duration of 
life among, 8, 38, 40 ; structure 
APH 
of, 10; different classes of indi- 
viduals among, 18; communities 
of, 2+; games of, 28; their rela~ 
tion tv plants, 50; often insecti- 
vorous, 59; their relations to 
other animals generally hostile, 
63 ; their enemies, 26, 67; their 
domestic animals, 67-78; pro- 
gress among, 90; their beha- 
viour towards each other, 94, 
&c.; mental powers of, 181; 
tleir sense of vision, 11, 182~ 
220, 258; of smell, 127, 238, 
258; of hearing, 221, 226; stri- 
dulating apparatus among, 230; 
their intelligence, 236 
‘Ant eggs,’ 7 
‘ Ant-rice,’ 61 
Antenna of ant described, 10; 
serse organ in terminal portion 
of, illustrated, 227 
Antenne as meaus of communica. 
tion among ants, 153; as organs 
of hearing, 221, 226; of smell, 
94, 234 
Antirrhinum fertilised by humble 
bees, 54 
Aphides made use of by ants, 25, 
67 ; different species of, utilised 
by different ants, 68; their 
honey, 69; their eggs tended by: 
ants, 70; not domesticated by 
F. fusca, 91 
