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The lling of the Ant has not any aperture at its extremity, through 

 M'hich this noxious litjuid is emitted (as 1 have heretofore faid 

 is the cafe with the Scorpion), but it is provided with a cavity, or 

 groove, fimilar to what we fee in thofe inftruments ufed by failors 

 to wet their fails, in order to make them hold the more wind. 

 Through this groove, or channel, the Ant is able to emit the liquid, 

 and that as far as the exti-emity of the fting. 



Upon my taking off this liquid from the fting, I found that 

 the animaFs fupply was not exhaulled ; for, when it drew in 

 the Iting, a frefli quantity of li(juid came again forth with it, and 

 this, not once, but fevcral different times. This gave me reafon to 

 guefs the caufe of an uncommonly large tumour I once had, in my 

 arm, from the flinging of an Ant, which was, that the Ant, having 

 crept up my fhirt lleeve on the infide, and there begun to fting ; be- 

 fore I could ftrip off my other clothes, as well as my fliirt, it 

 had ftung me, feveral times, fucceftively, from whence a large 

 quantity of that noxious liquid had been inje6led, cauling a larger 

 fwelling, and a greater degree of pain. 



Fig. 6, B C D, reprefents the fting of the Ant. A B D E denote 

 part of the animal's tail, which is covered with hairs. 



What I have here noted is, however, only to be imderftood of 

 the red coloured Ants, and thefe are the only fort of them which I 

 ever faw in my garden ; but, in other gardens, I obferved another 

 fpecies of Ants, of a blackifli colour, and fomewhat lefs in fize than 

 the red Ants, and not nearly of fo hardy a make ; for I could cafdy 

 comprefs or fqueeze the hinder parts of thefe Ants, which part of 

 the body, in the red Tones, was very hard. And, whereas I have 

 faid, that I always found the former Ants provided with a fting, I 

 coxdd not difcovcr any fting in thefe laft mentioned ones, although 

 I opened more than twenty five of them. 



As to the maggots in the nefts of thefe black Ants, they did 

 not differ from thofe produced by tlie red Ants, except in being 

 fomewhat fmaller than the red, when full grown. And, wherca. 



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