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Saw-flies, Gall-flies, Ichneumons, 



Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs, where he found hundreds of the 

 low-mounded nests in the gravelly soil. The name honey-ant is derived 

 from the curious structural modification and habits of certain workers, where- 

 by these become simply the containers of stored honey, which fills out the 



abdomen to the size and shape of a currant or small grape. These honey- 

 bearers hang by their feet from the ceiling of small dome-shaped chambers 

 in the nest; their yellow bodies stretch along the ceiling, but the rotund 

 abdomens hang down as almost perfect globules of transparent tissue through 



