82 -EGGs, &c. OF ANTS. 
The larvee of some ants pass the winter 
heaped up in the lowermost floor of their 
dwelling. I have found, at this period, 
very small larvee inthe nests inhabited by 
the Yellow Ant, the Field Ant, and some 
other species, but none, in those of 
the Fallow, Ash-coloured, and Mining 
Ants. Those that are to pass the winter 
in this state are covered with hair, which 
is not the case in summer; affording 
another proof of that Providence at which 
naturalists are struck at every step. We 
do not find the larvee of males and females 
but in the spring; their transformation 
takes place in the beginning of summer. 
The insect, in the state of pupa, has 
acquired the figure it will always pre- 
serve; nothing seems wanting but strength 
= ee 
aliment, which these insects discharge a little time 
before their change. — A. 
Gould is of our Author’s opinion; but Sir 
Edward King, who published a memoir on ants in 
an early number of the Philosophical Transactions 
conjectures, that it is a secretion cast out by the 
larva in its transformation. — T. 
