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lions from below up through very large formicariums so that all their 

 underground workings were exposed to observation. I found their 

 nests below to omMst of numerous rounded chambers, about as large 

 as a man's head, connected together by tunnelled passages leading from 

 one chamber to another. Notwithstanding that many columns of the 



Fir.. 190. Section of Mycctosorilis Iiartnwni nest in pure sand; about J A natural 

 size. Two of the chambers contain pendent fungus gardens. ( Photograph by C. G. 

 Hartman.) 



ants were continually carrying in the cut leaves, I could never find any 

 quantity of these in the burrows, and it was evident that they were used 

 up in some way immediately they were brought in. The chambers 

 were always about three parts filled with a speckled, brown, flocculent, 

 spongy-looking mass of a light and loosely connected substance. 



