Description
Ants and myrmecophyte: 1) Red wood ant (formica rufa), male larva, female, cocoon, pupa, worker, 2) Pheidole pallidula, worker, soldier, 3) Wet nurse of the honey ant (Myrmecocystus hortus deorum, with stuffed forestomach (v), Back plates of the abdominal rings (a), Digestion stomach (b), Gizzard (c), Belly plates of the abdominal rings (d), anus (f); 4 - 5) Anthill of Black garden ant (Lasius niger) with feeding the larvae (5); 6) A convoy of Eciton burchellii; 7) Stem end of Cecropia adenopus with cross section (7a); 8) Müllersche Körperchen (plant hairs); 9) Acacia sphaeroceephala (a), leaf with cell nodules (b), pierced hollow thorn (c); 10) Myrmecodia echinata with tuber (10a); 11) Hollow bubble on the leaf bottom of Duroia saccifera, 12) Hollow bubble on the leaf bottom of Tococa lancifolia. Wood engravings, published in 1897.