CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 

 ON TEE RELATION OF ANTS TO PLANTS. 



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nowers and inseota — Ants not so important in relation to 

 floweis as bees, but not without influence — Ants seldom 

 promote cross-fertilisation, and hence injurious to flowers — 

 Modes by which they are excluded — Belt — Kerner — 

 Aquatic plants — Moats — Sipsaeni — Slippery surfaces — 

 Gentian, snowdrop, cyclamen — Concealment of honey — 

 Atitirrhinvm,, lAnaHa, Canypam/ula, Ra/mmeulut, La/miwm, 

 Primmla, Qeraniwn, las. — Protection of honey by thicket* 

 of spines or hairs — Protection by viscid secretions — Blene, 

 Senecio, lAmusea, Polygonum, &c. — Milky juice — Laetuca — 

 Nectaries on leaves — Leaf -cutting ants — Ants as tree guards 

 — ^Importance of ants in destroying other insects — ^Har- 

 Testiag ants — Solomon — The Mischna — Meer Hassan Ali — 

 Sykes — Moggridge — Agricultural ants — Linceoum — McCook (0 



CHAPTER IV. 

 RELATIONS TO OTHER ANIMALS. 



Donting ants — The Driver ants — Ecitons — Insects mimicking 

 ants — Enemies of ants — Parisites — Mites — Phora — Domestic 

 animals of ants — ApMdet — Eggs of Aphides kept through 

 the winter by ants — Blind beetles — Pets —Progress among 

 ants — ^Relations of ants to one anothei—^Stenamma — SoUnopn* 

 — Slave-making ants — Formica tanguinca — Polyergut — 

 Expeditions of Polyergut — Polyergut fed by the slaves — 

 Sl/rfngylognatkus — Degradation of Strotigylngnathus — Aner- 

 gatea — Explanation of the present state of Strongylognatlm* 

 and Anergates — Progress among ants — Phases of life — 

 Hunting pastoral, and agricultural species . . .81 



CHAPTER V. 



BEHAVIOUR TO RELATIONS. 



Hr Qnte on 'Morali*-yas a necessity of society' — Behaviour 

 of ants to one another — Statementa of previous writers: 



