and. When the 



ground is by the application of coal tar or gas water ; if in walls or 

 res, or any other poisonous gases driven in by 

 bellows or centrifugal t';m. A very effective and useful machine termed 

 the 'asphyxiator,' used for the latter purpose, can be seen at any time 

 ;u the Royal Botanic Gardens. The method known as 'puddling' is 

 effective, as it destroys the food of the nest as well as the insects 

 themselves, and consequently there is no inducement for a new colony 

 to take up the same abode, but gas water or gas tar is just as effective, 



recent investigations have confirmed Belt in the supposition tha 

 ants cut up the leaves of plants and bring the pieces into their ne 

 servo as a pabulum on which to grow a fungus. In fact these p 

 are used to lot m ushroom bed " and the ants us< 



foiiiilial stage of the fungus for purposes of food for themselves 

 their larvae. The Hon. J. K. Tanner, Director of Public \V 

 Trinidad, has given interesting particulars of the habits of the Pa 

 ant in the Journal of iln 1'r'niidad field Xattmilists Club. > 

 August 1892. Mr. fanner had two nests on a tabic in his house, 

 one nest with a queen, the ants readih supplied themselves with p 

 of leaves from p] . feeding ground. Each foi 



dropped his portion of leaf in the nest and it was taken up by a i 

 worker and carried to a clear space to be cleaned. It was then t 

 in hand by the large workers, who after licking it with their ton« 



the edge of the already form, d fu _,.- bed m<l slightly smoothed di 



Parasol ants, believed to exi 



F.L.S., in the A<iru:nli unit liccord, .November 1892." 



