820 MIXED ANT-HILL 
sequences attending the capture of the’ 
pupe. When I opened the shutters, I was 
agreeably surprised in viewing, at one 
glance, the whole of the interior of the ant- 
hill. The ants had mined the entire mass 
of earth. ‘The glass, on one side, and the 
sheet of tin on the other, served as walls 
to the several chambers they had ex- 
cavated. All their passages, their halls, 
even to the smallest apartments, were 
distinctly visible. They constituted ir- 
regular stories, some larger than others, 
the former were of greater elevation, the 
lateer more elongated or narrowed. It 
was evident the ants had mzned, and not 
masoned, or worked up the earth: what 
they had drawn from the interior, was 
heaped up upon the last ceiling or roof. 
The walls were rendered so compact and 
solid as to run little risk of being thrown 
down by the weight of the materials they 
supported. 
Here the pupz and larve were col- 
lected in the large chambers. ‘There the 
Amazon army was stationed. In another 
