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CHAP. IX. 
FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE AMAZON 
ANTS. 
Ir any proof were still wanting of the 
origin of auxiliary ants in mixed ant- 
hills, the discovery of other habitations of 
this kind would, doubtless, throw much 
light upon this subject. I had not long 
been occupied, before I discovered such, 
in which the Amazons were the same, 
but the auxiliaries different, being of 
that species denominated Mining Ants. 
The Mining Ants (Fourmi mineuse), 
who build after the manner of Negro 
Ants (of which I have already treated in 
the chapter on architecture) are a little 
larger than the latter, from which they 
