438 
ARI 
Aristida oligantha, ‘ant-rice,’ 61 
Artificial nests for ants, 3, 164 
Ateuchus pilularius, anecdote of, 
154 
Atrophy of the imaginal discs of 
the ant-workezs, 12; of the 
sting in Formica, 15; of the 
eyesof Platyarthrus and Bechia, 
75 
Atta barbara, the eye in, 11; 
variety of workers among, 19 
— structor, its treatment of col- 
lected grain, 61 
— testaceo-pilosa, experiment with, 
as to power of communication, 
117 
Attachment among ants, 94 
Auditory organs, structures in ant- 
antennz probably serve as, 226 
Australian honey ant, 49; de- 
scribed, 428 
ATES, Mr., quoted as to the 
five kinds of workers in 
Satiba, 22; as to ant-play, 29; 
as to the use made by ants of 
leaves, 57; as to the armies of 
Eciton, 65; as to leaf-cutting 
by Saitiba, 237 
Batrisus, rarely more than one 
specimen of, found in an ants’ 
nest, 78 
Beckia, one of the ant-guests, 74 
Bees, occasional fertility of 
workers among, 36; means of 
recognition among, 126; their 
sense of hearing, 221, 290; ob- 
servations with, 274; difficulty 
in finding their way, 278; their 
behaviour in a strange hive, 281; 
their recklessness, 285; their 
want of mutual affection, 286 ; 
their influence on the develop- 
ment of flowers, 51, 291; their 
colour sense, 291; their prefer- 
ence for blue, 294-310; experi- 
ments on communication among 
them, 276, 401 
INDEX. 
CAR 
Beetles kept in ants’ nests, 74, 76, 
90 
Belt, Mr. Thomas, quoted as to 
floral defences against ants, 51; 
as to defence against leaf-cut- 
ting ants, 57; on the raids of 
Eeiton, 66; on an ant-lixe 
spider, 66 
Bert, Prof. Paul, as to the limits 
of vision, 219 
Bichromate of potash, experiments 
with, 211 
Bisulphide of carbon, experiments 
with, 208 ; 
Blanchard, M., quoted as to the 
origin of nests, 30 
Blindness of Anomma and Ecviton 
65 ; of Platyarthrus and Beckia. 
75 
Blue, the favourite colour of bees, 
~ 294, 304, 310; flowers, their late 
origin, 308 
Bonnet, M., on aphis eggs, 70 
Bonnier, M., on inditference to 
colour among bees, 302 
Bothriomyrmez meridionalis, the 
eye in, J1 
Brazil, blind hunting ants of, 65; 
use made by the Indians in, of 
the tenacity of an ant-bite, 96 
Buchle dactyloides, seed of, co!- 
lected by ants, 61 
Biichner, Dr., as to Texan harvest- 
ing ants, 62 
Burmeister, on the power of recog- 
nition among insects, 126 
Butterfly, ants seen licking the 
larva of, 68 
C4uronotus inflatus, de- 
scribed, 428 
— ligniperdus, the eye in, 11; 
communication among 158 
Captivity, mode of keeping ants 
in, 2,3; a wasp in, 315 
Caterpillars killed by ants, 59, 65 
Caryophyliacee, correlation of 
form and colour in, 309 
