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INSF.CTS ABKOAD. 



British Museum having been ])roiight from India, Singapore, 



and Borneo. 



The three illustrations represent three of the forms of tlie 



perfect insect. Tlie first is the winged male. The thorax is 



black and the abdomen brown, 

 and in this, as in the female, 

 the legs are slender and very 

 long in proportion to the body. 

 The second figure represents 

 the winged female, which is 

 very much larger than her 

 mate, and has a much stouter 

 and more rounded body. As is 

 the case with our English Ants, 

 the M'inged specimens only re- 

 tain their wings for a very short 

 time, breaking them off close to 

 the body when they are about 

 to settle down in life, 

 the Soldier. This is nearly as 



— Coiiiponotus gigas. 

 (Dliickisli-brown.) 



The third figure represent? 



Fig. 21S.— Coinpoiiotus gigas. Female. 

 (Blfickish-browii.) 



large as the female. Tlie abdomen, it is true, is smaller, but 

 this is compensated by the head, which is squared, and of 



