ANT COMMUNITIES 



(Fig. 22), so that it is almost parallel with the line of the 



thorax. [McC. 9, p. 188.] 



These ants, besides nesting in the earth near the 



surface and under stones, are apt to choose a site in a 



heap of stones, on an 

 old stump, or in the 

 debris of fallen and de- 

 caying logs. A colo- 

 ny settled among the 

 crannies of a bowlder 

 wall at our country 

 home,Brookcamp, had 

 built a covered ap- 

 proach to their main 

 entrance, using there- 

 for particles of dust, 

 earth, etc., that had 

 accumulated upon the 

 rocks. The nest itself 

 was within the inter- 

 stices formed by the 

 rounded exteriors of 

 the big bowlders, and 

 was quite out of sight. 

 This covered vestibule 

 was a mild suggestion 

 of the vast mud-cov- 



Fig. 22 CREMASTOGASTER LiNEOLATA 6i*ed ways made by 



a, b, c Worker, d, e Queen. the Eciton, or " driv- 



/ Worker with turned-up gnster. 



their route when out upon one of their devastating 

 forays. 



On a vine twined about the cloistered porch connect- 



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