SUPPLYING THE COMMUNAL RATIONS 



in painf ulness with the sting of the agricultural ant 

 of Texas. 



The interior of the great formicary (fifteen feet long, 

 eight or nine feet wide, and four feet high; I do not 



Fig. 49 CUTTING ANTS 



1. Winged female. 2. Male. ?. Soldier. 4 Worker-major 

 of the cutting or mushroom gardening ants. 



know how deep, but certainly five and probably ten 

 feet) may be briefly described as an irregular arrange- 

 ment of caverns communicating with one another and 

 with the surface by tubular galleries. These caverns, or 

 pockets, were of various sizes, three feet long and less 

 by one foot deep and eight inches high and less. Within 

 these chambers were masses of a light, delicate leaf- 



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