56 ARCHITECTURE OF ANTS- 
length and of equal height, formed of 
wood as thin as paper, containing a num- 
ber of apartments, and presenting the 
most singular appearance. At the en- 
trance of these apartments, worked out 
with so much care, are very considerable 
openings ; but, in place of chambers, and 
extensive galleries, thelayers of the wood 
are hewn in arcades, allowing the ants a 
free passage in every direction. These 
may be regarded as the gates or vestibules. 
conducting to the several lodges. 
Fig. 3. and 4., Pl. I., give but a very 
imperfect idea of the labours of these 
insects. The first represents a fragment 
taken from the trunk of an oak inhabited 
by Fuliginous Ants ; the second, a small 
portion of their nest, taken from the 
roots of the same tree. To judge’ pro- 
perly of these fragments, we should place 
them in every position, we shall then 
better observe their singular organiz- 
ation. 
The Red Ant, a little larger than the 
preceding, forms a lodging in trees, very — 
