ARCHITECTURE OF ANTS. 49 
Latreille has distributed ants, it includes 
the Brown, the Ash-coloured, the Fallow, 
the Mining, the Sanguine, the Fuli- 
ginous, and the Yellow Ant, &c. These 
_ants possess the same exterior organs, a 
similarity of the means employed in con- 
structing their dwellings, and resem- 
blances in figure, which have occasioned 
them to be placed under the same di- 
vision; their instinct, however, places 
them at a considerable distance from 
each other, plainly showing that we can- 
not always form a correct judgment of 
the manners and customs of insects from 
analogy. 
The labours of those ants that inhabit 
trees, or what we may term ‘Timber Ants, 
are less open to general observation than 
those already described, and have, in 
consequence, received but little attention 
from naturalists. 
The ant holding the first rank in this 
division, is, the Fuliginous, so called on 
account of its colour. It is of a shining 
black, and is two lines in length; its re- 
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