296 AMAZON. ANTS. 
developed: and not knowing their real 
family, (like the Negro Ants in mixed 
ant-hills,) bestow all their care upon the 
offspring of the Amazons. 
Here then are two distinct species of 
auxiliary ants, in whose form and charac- 
ter we trace no resemblance, affording a 
favourable opportunity for solving the 
question, relative to the composition of 
these ant-hills, If in compound Negro 
ant-hills, and in compound Miner ant- 
hills, we find males and females of but 
one species, we must, of course, conclude, 
they have no relation to the auxiliary 
ants, but only to the Amazons; indeed 
those which I saw carried on several occa- 
sions by the Mining workers, in their 
emigration from one nest to another, in 
every respect resembled the little males 
and large females, met with in mixed 
Negro ant-hills: and I have looked in 
vain for others in the same habitation. 
I have even been present at the time of 
their leaving their abode, and can affirm, 
notwithstanding researches the most assi- 
