AXT COMMUNITIES 



pumpkins, and tobacco. This statement has a signifi- 

 cant bearing upon the part assigned in nature to ants 

 and other insects in making the earth habitable by 

 agricultural man. [Li. 1, p. 590.] 



The pebble roofing of the cone of the Occident ant is a 

 permanent feature (Fig. 20) at least, of the immense 

 number seen by me, all were covered with pebbles of the 

 gravelly soil in which they stood. In the vicinage of the 

 Garden of the Gods the pebbles were red sandstone. 

 The mounds in Wyoming observed by Prof. Joseph Leidy 

 were covered with a white stone. Mr. R. Hill saw them 



V,. 



Fig. 20 PEBBLE-ROOFED COMMUNE OF THE OCCIDENT ANT 



on the Sapa Creek, in northwestern Kansas, roofed with 

 pellets of the limestone rock in which the great fossils 

 are found, and in one or two cases even of portions of 

 the fossils. Thus the conditions of the famous riddle 

 of the Judipan Hercules are repeated in this far Occident, 

 and the hymenopterous allies of the bees who nested in 

 the skeleton of Samson's lion burrow and build a home 



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