620 SIR JOHJS" LTJBBOCK ON ANTS, EEES, AND TVASPS. 



piipsB belonging to nest 2, removed on the 20tli September, and 

 brought up by ants from nest 1, and put them back into tlieir old 

 nest at 2 p.m. They were watched continuously until 4 p.m., 

 but were not attacked, nor even threatened. The following 

 morning one of them was quite well, the other one had probably 

 been cleaned. AVe could not distinguish her ; but if she had been 

 killed, we must have found her dead body. I then at 10 a.m. 

 put in two more. At 10.30 one of them was attacked for a 

 moment, but only for a moment. With this exception neither of 

 them was attacked until 2 o'clock, when one of them was again 

 seized and dragged about for a minute or two, but then released 

 again. AVe continued watching them till half-past 4, when they 

 seemed quite at home amongst the others. On the other hand a 

 stranger, put in as a test at 12, was at once attacked. It was 

 curious, however, that although she was undoubtedly attacked, 

 yet at the very same time another ant began to clean her. 



The next morning we found one ant lying dead in the box out- 

 side the nest ; and this turned out to be the stranger of yesterday. 

 She had been almost cleaned ; but there were one or two infini- 

 tesimal particles of paint still remaining, so that there could be no 

 doubt of her identity. 



The next day, Nov. 27, 1 put in three more of the ants derived 

 from these pupsB at 10 a.m. At 10.30 they were all right, running 

 about amongst the others. At 11 o'clock the same was the case ; 

 but whilst I was looking again shortly afterwards, one of them was 

 seized by an antenna and dragged a little w^ay, but released again 

 in less than a minute. Shortly afterwards one of the others was 

 also seized, but let go again almost immediately. At 1 o'clock 

 they were all right, and also at 2. They had, however, in the 

 meantime been more than once threatened, and even momentarily 

 seized, though they were never dragged about as strangers would 

 have been. At 3 o'clock I found one of them dead ; but I think I 

 must have accidentally injured her, and I do not believe that she 

 was killed by the other ants, though I cannot speak quite posi- 

 tively about it. The other two were all right, and had been 

 partly cleaned. At 6 one of them was running about comfort- 

 ably amongst the rest ; the other I could not distinguish ; but 

 certainly no ant was being attacked. 



Nov. 28. I put in the last two ants from the above- 

 mentioned batch of pupae at noon. Like the preceding, these 

 ants w^ere occasionally threatened, and even sometimes attacked 



