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rather than through the eyes, and they suggest the idea that the 

 sense of smell may be as efficient as that of sight in ai)i)ropriately 

 connecting a creature with its environment. 



I have observed that these ants, like the Termites, are able to 

 carry water for domestic uses. They probably lap the water into 

 the pouch above the lower lip and eject it at its destination. A hun- 

 dred or two of ants that I brought in and left in a heap of dry 

 earth upon a Lubbock nest, during the ensuing uighi took water 

 from the surrounding moat, moistened a full pint of the earth, built 

 therein a proper nest, and were busy depositing their larvae in its 

 recesses when I saw them on the follo\ving morning. 



