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time, are patterns of industry, and exhibit a readiness in 

 overcoming extraordinary emergencies, which show that 



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Fig. 300. (Ecodoma, or Leaf-cutter Ant of Nicaragua. After Belt. 



they have sufficient reasoning powers to meet the exigencies 

 of their life ; their ordinary acts being instinctive namely, 



Fig. 361. Diagram of an ant's nest (CEcodoma), the chambers below containing 

 the unt food. After Belt. 



the results of inherited habits. The leaf-cutter ants of 

 Central and South America (Fig. 360) are famous from 



