The other instance is as follows:-- Th. Meenan ('Proc. of the Acad. of Nat.,' Philadelphia, Jan. 22, 1878) observed a very similar case with _Vespa maculata_. He saw one of these wasps try in vain to raise from the ground a grasshopper it had killed. When all its efforts proved to be in vain, it pulled its prey to a maple tree, about thirty feet off, mounted it with its prize, and flew away from it. 'This,' adds the writer, 'was more than instinct. It was reflection and judgment, and the judgment was proved to be correct.' Depriving bees of their antennæ has the effect of producing an even more marked bewilderment than results from this operation in the case of ants. A queen thus mutilated by Huber ran about in confusion, dropping her eggs at random, and appeared unable to take with precision the food that was offered her. She showed no resentment to a similarly mutilated stranger queen that was introduced: the workers also heeded not the mutilated stranger; but when an unmutilated stranger was introduced they fell upon her. When the mutilated queen was allowed to escape, none of the workers followed. FOOTNOTES: [46] Vol. ix. p. 484. [47] _Passions of Animals_, p. 53. [48] Vol. xii. p. 68. [49] 'Three months' in the Journal of the Linnæan Society, but Sir John Lubbock informs me that this is a misprint. [50] See Kirby and Spence, vol. ii. p. 591. [51] Letter to Mr. Darwin, published in _Nature_, vol. x., p. 102. [52] Vol. xii., pp. 25-6. [53] _Loc. cit._ [54] Art. 'Bees,' _Encycl. Brit._ [55] Dr. Kemp, _Indications of Instinct_. [56] _The Bee_, 1877, No. 1. [57] Dr. Lindley Kemp, _Indications of Instinct_. [58] Handcock on Instinct, p. 18. [59] _Introd. Ent._, ii, p. 465. [60] _Origin of Species_, 'Cell-making Instinct.' [61] _Origin of Species_, p. 225. [62] _Mind in Animals_, pp. 252-3. [63] For a complete account of these habits see Bingley, _Animal Biography_, vol. iii., pp. 272-5. [64] _Mém. sur les Insectes_, tom. vi., p. 39. [65] Vol. i., pp. 22-3 (3rd ed.). [66] Vol. xvii., p. 373. [67] See Brehm, _Thierleben_, ix., p. 252. [68] An exactly similar case is recorded by Stodmann in his _Travels in Surinam_, ii., p. 286. [69] _Nature_, ix., p. 189. [70] See _Kirby and Spence_, vol. ii., p. 229. CHAPTER V. TERMITES.