By Sir Join Lmllotk, Bari. 



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l^Hpffcr wm leas conclusive than could be wished, because the 

 I Haan might have been fed at night, or at a time when we were 

 ■ Hat looking. It struck me therefore that it would be interesting to 

 J I treat some strangers also in the same manner. On September 2nd 



»i i therefore I pat two specimens of F./msca into a bottle, die end of 

 which was tied op with muslin as described, and laid it down elose to 

 t the nest from which they had been taken. In a second bottle I put 

 J ^po ants from another nest of the same species. Hie ants which were at 

 { liberty took no notice of the bottle containing their imprisoned friends. 



The strangers in the bottle, on the con trary, excited them considerably, 

 i The whole day one, two, or more, stood sentry as it were, over the bottle. 



I In the evening no less than twelve were collected round it — a larger 

 . number than usually came out at once. The whole of the next two 

 . ' days in the same way there were more or less ants round the bottle 

 containing the strangers; while as far as we could see no notice 

 whatever was taken of the friends. On the 9th, the ants had eaten 

 through the muslin and effected an entrance. We did not donee 

 to be on the spot at the moment, but as I found two ants lying 

 dead, one in the bottle and one just outside. I flmdk there am be ■ : 

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were quite neglected. 

 HSeptember 21st. I then repeated the experiment, putting three 



hand some of the ante wae always watching on the bottle 



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