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ANTS. 



figures representing ants taking drops from the siphons of aphicls. 

 The discharge of the drops of honey-dew from the anus and not from 

 the siphons, is so ra>ily observed with a pocket lens or even with the 

 naked rye wherever aphids abound, that there is little excuse for 



FIG. 207. Carton coccid-tent built by Cremostogaster pilosa around a twig of pitch 



pine. (Original.) 



