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Lubbock’s Observations on Bees and Ants. 
[ March, 
The following additional observations were made after the read- 
ing of the paper, at the dates severally mentioned below. 
Thus on January 3d I placed 
some larvæ in three small porce- 
lain saucers in a box seven inches square attached to one of my 
frame nests. 
The saucers were in a row, six inches from the en- 
trance to the frame and one and a half inch apart from one an- 
other. 
At 1.10 an ant came to the larvæ in the 
cup which I will call No. 1, took a larva, 
and returned to the nest. 
At 1.24 she returned and took another. 
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At 2.24 she returned to cup No. 3. As’ 
there were only two larvæ in this cup, I 
left her alone. She took nd returned. 
At 2.31 she returned to cup No. 3 and 
took the last larva. 
At 2.40 she came back to cup No, 3 and 
searched diligently, went away and wan- 
dered about for two minutes, then returned 
for another look, and at length at 2.50 
went to cup No. 1 and took a larva. 
came to cup 1 and took a larva. 
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first, however, going and examining cup 
3 again. 
At 3.18 came to cup 3, then went to 
cup 2 and took a larva. 
At 3.30 came to cup 3, then went to cup 
2 and took a larva. 
t 3.43 came to cup 3, then went to cup 
2 and took a larva. 
At 3.53 came to cup 3, but did not climb 
cup, and the cup 2, where she took 
the last larva, so that two cups are now 
empty. ; 
At 4.03 she came to cup 3, then to cup 
2, and lastly to cup 1, when she took @ 
rva. 
At 4.15 came to cup 1 and took a larva. 
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came to cup 3, then to cup 2, 
and lastly to cup 1, when she took a l 
At 5,19 came to cup 1 and took a larva. 
“ 5.50 came to cup 2 and then to cup 
1 and took a larva. i 
At 6.20 came to cup 1 and took the last 
larva. 
I now put about-eighty larvæ in cup 3. 
It is remarkable that during 
all this time she did not come 
straight to the cups, but took a roundabout and apparently irres- 
olute course. 
At 7.04 she came to cup 1 and then to cup 3, and then home. 
There were at least a dozen ants exploring in the box; but 
she did not send any of them to the larvæ. 
At 7.30 she returned to cup 3 and took a larva. 
I now left off watching for an hour. On my return 
At 8.30 she was just carrying off a 
larva. 
At 8.40 she came back to cup 3 and 
took a larva. 
At 8.55 she came to cup 
3 and took a Jarva, 
At 9712 she came to cup 1, then to cup 
3 and took a larva. 
1, then to cup 
At 9.30 she came to cup 3, then to cup 3 
and took a larva. 
At 9.52 she came to cup 3, then to cup 3 
and took a larva. 
At 10.14 she came to cup 1, then to cup 
3 and took a larva. 
At 10,26 she went and examined cup 
2, then to cup 3 and took a larva. 
