oS .L\'TS. 



never construct elaborate earthen, paper or waxen cells for the indi- 

 vidual larvae, and, unlike the solitary bees and wasps, which never 

 see their brood, or the social bees and wasps, whose experience is 



FIG. 34. Interior of a formicary to show the classification of the larva; and pupa? 

 according to their stages. (Ern. Andre.) 



largely confined to the heads and gaping mouths of their progeny, 

 the ants have acquired an extensive and uniform experience with all 

 the developmental stages of their species from the egg to the adult. 



