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fluids, elaborated in their stomach and then disgorged. 
But I have no time to tell the hundredth part of Ant- 
lore ; how some species, as Formica Sanguinea , invade 
the nests of others and plunder them of their pupae, 
which they carry off to their own colonies and bring up 
as slaves, how they milk the Plant-lice which they im¬ 
prison in their nests, how when they become too 
numerous the surplus population emigrates, how the 
new colony uses all sorts of devices to induce other 
ants to join them ; nor can I do more than refer to the 
bull-dog courage sometimes exhibited, as when an ant 
has attached itself to some large beetle and chosen 
to die there rather than relax its hold ! It is said that 
in Switzerland ants are crushed into a plaster, and 
applied to the head as a cure for the headache, and that 
Swiss school girls rub their foreheads with the insects, 
pour se fortifier la memoiref Formic acid ant-baths 
are also used in Switzerland and Germany, according to 
Mr. Staveley. A Russian lady at Wildbad was ordered to 
visit a village in the Black Forest, to strengthen herself 
by the use of ant-baths ; and a child, four years old, 
“ who had dwindled away to a mere skeleton,’’ is said 
to have had her strength completely restored by a course 
•of ant baths. The ants are the large Wood-ants which 
are collected with earth leaves, etc., and placed in bags, 
and hot water poured on them ; they are left for a time 
and the bath is ready for use. Then ant baths are 
said to be used at Wiesbaden, but I have been unable 
to learn anything about them from a friend who has 
just returned from a few weeks’ sojourn there. 
The Solitary-ants (. MutilUdw ) are not much known 
in this country ; the females are wingless. Mat ilia 
