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Kirby and Spence, assertion that ants do not harvest in Europe, 10.


Mistakes made by ants, 19, 37.

Mouth organs of ants, 48.

Myrmica cæspitum, 37, 51, 63.


Occasional harvesters, 51.

Œcodoma cephalotes, 13;
  diffusa, 12 (note), 65;
  providens, 12 (note), 65.


Pheidole megacephala, 16, 50, 63, working at night, 49;
  pallidula, 51, 63.

Pseudomyrma rufo-nigra, 67.


Radicle of germinating seeds gnawed off by ants, 20, 25, 26;
  this fact mentioned by Aldrovandus, 9.

Rock nest, sandstone mined by ants, 32-35.

Rubbish heaps, materials which compose, 21, 22, 55.


Sandstone mined by ants, the rock nests, 31-35.

Seeds, dispersal of, by means of ants, 4, 21, 53, 55;
  tendency to germinate arrested, 24, 50;
  eaten by ants, 46-48, 54.

Seed stores of ants used as food by natives of India, 67.

Spherical chamber found in ant's nest, 35.

Sykes (Lieut.-Col.) and Jerdon (Dr.) on harvesting ants in India, 12, 64, 65.


Winged males and females of Aph. Structor and Barbara, 41.


PART II.—TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS.

Atypus Blackwallii, 78.

Atypus piceus, 77;
  nest of, 78.

Ausserer (A.), description of Nemesia manderstjernæ, 145.

Australia, trap-door spiders in, 114, 130.


Blackwall, on nests of Atypus piceus, 78 (note).

Blackwall, on the tarsi of certain spiders being furnished with a viscous secretion, 87.

British representative of the sub-order Territelariæ, 77.

Browne (Patrick), on the trap-door spider of Jamaica, 73.


Cambridge (Rev. O. Pickard), description of Cteniza fodiens, 89;
  of Nemesia cæmentaria, 92;
  of N. meridionalis, 101;
  of N. Eleanora, 108.