Asks how the Coleoptera that inhabit the nests of ants colonise a new nest. Wallace has suggested their ova become attached to winged female ants.
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Asks how the Coleoptera that inhabit the nests of ants colonise a new nest. Wallace has suggested their ova become attached to winged female ants.
Coleoptera inhabiting ants’ nests. Means of colonisation of new nests.
Sends a copy of his book on Swiss ants [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Notes points and passages that he thinks will interest CD.
Thanks AHF for his book on ants of Switzerland;
recommends reading Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874].
Writes about AHF’s book on Swiss ants.
Recounts his own observations on ants carrying cocoons.
Thanks for CD’s favourable opinion of his book [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Habits of ants; observations on their carrying empty eggs.
Thanks for the present of the book [Thomas Belt, The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)].