[56] De Geer ii. 1104.
[57] Gould, 99.
[58] Huber, 105.
[59] Pilgrimage, 1090.
[60] M. Huber observes that fecundated females, after they have lost their wings, make themselves a subterranean cell, some singly, others in common. From which it appears that some colonies have more than one female, from their first establishment.
[61] ii. 1071.
[62] Gould, p. 24—.
[63] Compare Gould p. 25, with Huber 125, note (1).
[64] It may be thought that many of the anecdotes related in the following history of the proceedings of neuter ants could not have been observed by any one, unless he had been admitted into an ant-hill; but it must be recollected that M. P. Huber, from whose work the most extraordinary facts are copied, invented a kind of ant hive; so constructed as to enable him to observe their proceedings without disturbing them.