Note 6 — CHAP. VI. OF THE RELATION OF ANTS WITH THE PUCERONS AND GALL INSECTS.
James Rawlins Johnson translation
Gould has taken notice of these black eggs, which he considers to be the female eggs of ants: here, however, he labours under a mistake, for they are evidently the eggs of the Aphides, or Pucerons. We learn from Mr. Kirby, that in a nest of yellow ants, which fell under his observation, he saw near the surface a parcel of the eggs of the Aphides, and these he knew by their black colour.—T.