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may sometimes contain a worker or a nymph or even a soldier 

 capable of laying eggs. Such monstrous forms arc not infre- 

 quent in large orphaned nests, but never apparently in colonies 

 headed by the true royal pair. One may also find winged sol- 

 diers, soldiers with mandibles of varying size, and, as just men- 

 tioned, soldiers with wing buds, the straw-color characteristic of 

 substitute forms and with functional reproductive organs. These 



FIG. 2. 



FIG. 2. A, primary queen of Tennopsis angusticollis, at least four years old, X > 

 , complemental queen of same species, X 7- 



last-named insects are comparatively rare. I have had but three 

 in my possession. All of them laid eggs in captivity and in one 

 case I followed the development for a long period of time, but the 

 young and the nymphs and workers into which they became 

 transformed, appeared in all respects perfectly normal. 



