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The other instance is as follows : — 
Th. Meenan ( 4 Proc. of the Acad, of Nat./ Philadelphia, Jan. 
22, 1878) observed a very similar case with Vespa maculata. 
He saw one of these wasps try in vain to raise from the ground 
a grasshopper it had killed. When all its efforts proved to be 
in vain, it pulled its prey to a maple tree, about thirty feet off, 
mounted it with its prize, and flew away from it. 4 This/ adds 
the writer, 4 was more than instinct. It was reflection and 
judgment, and the judgment was proved to be correct/ 
Depriving bees of their antennae has the effect of pro- 
ducing an even more marked bewilderment than results 
from this operation in the case of ants. A queen thus 
mutilated by Huber ran about in confusion, dropping her 
eggs at random, and appeared unable to take with preci- 
sion the food that was offered her. She showed no resent- 
ment to a similarly mutilated stranger queen that was 
introduced : the workers also heibded not the mutilated 
stranger ; but when an unmutilated stranger was intro- 
duced they fell upon her. When the mutilated queen 
was allowed to escape, none of the workers followed. 
