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Add to this, they sometimes abandon an outward 
part of their building, the community being di- 
minished by some accident to me unknown. 
Sometimes too different species of tlie real Ant 
(Formica) ])ossess themselves by force of a lodge- 
ment, and so are frequently dislodged from the 
same nest, and taken for tlie same kind of insects. 
This I know is often the case with the nests of 
the smaller species, which are frequently totally 
abandoned by the Termites, and completely inha- 
bited by different species of Ants, Cockroaches, 
ScolopendrcC, Scorpions, and other vermin, fond 
of obscure retreats, that occupy different parts of 
their roomy buildings. 
“ In the winged state they have also much al- 
tered their size as well as form. Their bodies 
now measure between six and seven tenths of an 
inch in length, and their wings abov^e two inches 
and a half from tip to tip, and they are equal in 
bulk to about thirty labourers, or two soldiers. 
They are now also furnished with two large eyes 
placed on each side of the head, and very conspi- 
cuous; if they have any before, they are not 
easily to be distinguished. Probably in the two 
first states, their eyes, if they have any, may be 
small like those of moles; for as they live like 
these animals always under ground, they have as 
little occasion for these organs, and it is not to be 
wondered at that we do not discover them; but 
the case is much altered when they arrive at the 
winged state in which they are to roam, though 
but for a few hours, through the wide air, and ex- 
