48 ARCHITECTURE OF ANTS. 
the same genus, manners so varied, and 
an industry so widely different ? Ants 
furnish us with one of the most striking 
examples of this kind. We have just 
completed a sketch of the several species 
of Mason-ants; each building in a dif- 
ferent manner, and offering some strik- 
ing peculiarities in the style and mode 
of their architecture. ‘That of the Fal- 
low-ants is founded upon different prin- 
ciples, and the industry of those who ex- 
cavate their dwelling in wood, has no 
point of resemblance with that of the 
species of which we have lately treated. 
This tribe of ants includes several spe- 
cies; and we still observe in their archi- 
tectural labours very sensible shades of 
difference: all these insects enter into 
the first of the nine divisions into which 
engaged, they bear some resemblance to individuals 
walking with parasols, hence their name. Smeath- 
man informs us, that one species of the Termites, 
or whatare commonly known under the name of White 
Ants (7. arborum) builds itsnest among the branches 
of trees; and we learn from M. de Laubere, that in 
that part of Siam which is exposed to inundations, 
all the ants construct their habitations in trees. —T. 
