Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders: Notes and Observations on Their Habits and Dwellings

· 1874

Royal 8vo. In 4 parts, each, with 25 Coloured Plates, 15_s._, or complete in one vol. 63_s._ Plate I., p. 21, fig. A.--View of the entrance to a nest of _Atta barbara_, showing part of a train of ants bearing seeds, the conical mound of refuse thrown out, and some seedlings, which have sprung up from seeds accidentally dropped by the ants; B, one of the larger workers of this species, of the natural size, and B 1, its abdomen and pedicle, with two nodes, magnified; C*, one of the smaller workers, of the natural size; C, a male, of the natural size; D, a female, of the natural size; D 1, wing of the same, magnified; D 2, mouth organs of the same, magnified, with the mandibles removed, the tw…

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