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can diftinguifli the young Ants when not peifedlly formed, and 

 which, in procefs of time, increafe in fize ; when, on the contrary, 

 no Ant, or rather its maggot, is inclofed in its web or cafe, until it 

 has attained its full lize. 



This being fo, it appears, that the young Ant, whether a 

 maggot, a crj^fahs, or a maggot in its web or cafe, has, hitherto, 

 been improperly called by the name of an Ant's egg; for, in 

 like manner as we can, with no propriety, denominate the cone or 

 cafe wherein alllk worm is inclofed, a filk worm's egg, it is equally 

 improper to call the maggot, cryfalis, or the web of the mag- 

 got, wherein a young Ant is inclofed, an Ant's egg. For, upon 

 comparing the true fize of an egg, laid by the Ant, with that of the 

 web or cafe wherein the maggot, containing the young Ant, is 

 inclofed (and which is commonly called the Ant's egg), I will 

 venture to fay, that nearly an hundred and feventy five Ants' eggs 

 do not more than equal the lize of the web or cafe fpun by 

 the maggot, and in which it is changed into an Ant. 



I have before faid, that, at one end of the web or cafe fpun 

 by the young Ant, there is a black fpot, which, upon examination, 

 I judged to be the excrement of the maggot, and which it purged 

 off when it was about being changed into an Ant. 



This web or cafe, fpun by the maggot, is of fo clofe a texture 

 that one can feldom difcern the Ant within it, unlefs when it is fo 

 far advanced in its growth that it begins to aflume a black colour, 

 or v/hen it moves itfelf within the covering or cafe. 



In all the Ants' nefls that I have examined, I have obferved 

 fome of the Ants to have wings ; but in none of the nefts have I been 

 able to find the leaft traces of the provilions which they are faid to 

 ilore up ; fo that I am Hill more allured that, in the fummer feafon, 

 the Ants have enough to do to colleft and carry into their nefls 

 a fufficient quantity of food for the fupport and nourilhment of the 

 multitudes of their maggots, both great and fmall, with which 

 their nefls are, in many places, quite filled. 



