RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Lund, Lettre sur les Habitudes de quelques Fourmis du Brésil, adressée à M. Audouin. CUL-DAR205.11.54. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.11 contains notes on Instinct, change in habit.


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Annales des Sc. Nat. Tom. 23. (1831) M. Lund sur les Habitudes de quelques Fourmis du Brésil.

p. 126 — The ants eat sweet juice scented by larvæ of Cicadella Cercopis & Membracis, which live nearly same time as Aphis— (Q)

(p. 127. Aphis not, apparently aboriginal in Brazil, but near Rio in gardens some introduced — none in interior of country — but the Ants of the County near Rio above found them out, & treat them as Europæan ants do their aphides.—

(Changed Habits) Ch X

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[Natural selection, p. 512: "In. Brazil the ants derive the sweet juice secretion by the larvae of Cicadella, Cercopis & Membracis; (Lund, in Annal des Sc. Nat. Tom 23 (1831) p. 126); & what is very remarkable, when Aphides were introduced on foreign plants near Rio de Janeiro, the native ants found them out, & used them, as European ants do their Aphides.—"]

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p 126-127 Instinct

p 136 solitary ant no neuters


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