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who receive all the advantages attending 
this relation. 
I am strongly inclined to believe, that 
the Yellow Ants, and all those who are 
endowed with the same industry, go in 
search of these insects through the sub- 
terranean galleries they have formed 
between the roots; that they find them 
scattered among the grass, and bring 
them to the nest. I cannot conceive, if 
this be not the case, why there should be 
so many of these insects in ant-hills, for 
they are not equally common elsewhere. 
I have seldom discovered them under 
the grass, but they were surrounded by 
Yellow Ants, who arrive at their haunts 
by subterranean passages, and who, pro- 
bably, convey them to their nest in the 
autumn. ‘They often seized upon them 
in my presence, and withdrew with them 
by some obscure path, which proves 
that these insects are at their complete 
disposal. 
It is more particularly during the bad 
weather, that they assemble them at the 
