SANITATION PERSONAL BENEVOLENCE 



mandibles, sometimes aided by the feet, as to enable 

 me to transfer the bulky creatures to any point near by, 

 and even to lift them out of the nest. Here, again, the 

 idea, or at least the act, of helpfulness was lacking. If 



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Fig. 97 HONEY- ANTS AND ROTUNDS 



1. Worker honey-ant feeding a rotund. 2. A rotund honey-ant 

 partly buried by mining workers. 3. A rotund in trouble a 

 " priest " and a Levite near by. 



we suppose the power to communicate their distress and 

 desires to have been possessed by the honey-bearers, we 

 must think the workers even yet more lacking in feeling 

 and intelligence. In any case the power of benevolent 

 initiative seemed wholly wanting. 



One more case. A honey- bearer was partly buried 

 under her perch, that portion of the roof having fallen. 

 Her abdomen was quite covered by the sandy particles 



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