[105] Voy. to Maurit. 71.

[106] I was much amused, when dining in the forest of Fontainebleau, by the pertinacity with which the hill-ant (F. rufa) attacked our food, haling from our very plates, while we were eating, long strips of meat many times their own size.

[107] Related in the Quarterly Review for August 1816, p. 259.

[108] Insect. Surinam. p. 18. In her plate the ants are represented so connected.

[109] Voyages dans l'Amérique Mérid. i. 187.

[110] Gould, 69.

[111] Huber, 73.

[112] Gould, 103—.

[113] Bonnet, ii. 407.

[114] Huber, 170—.