IN A GLASS APPARATUS. 828 
assembling them with their companions, 
&e. I also observed a large body of 
the auxiliaries surrounding a Rufescent 
female without wings, for whom they 
expressed great solicitude; the rest of 
the males and females were on the out- 
side of the ant-hill, attended by a numer- 
ous coriége of Ash-coloured Ants, and 
by some Amazons; they soon took flight 
and were never seen to return. 
Every day the Legionaries made fresh 
incursions on the neighbouring ant-hills, 
and thus considerably increased the num- 
ber of their pupz: but when once 
placed within the ruche they were no 
longer the objects of their attention. It 
was now the business of the auxiliaries to 
attend and convey them to the different 
chambers, which is regulated by the hour 
of the day and direction of the sun. 
Some of the pupe were still enveloped in 
their cocoon; others had been extricated 
from fhem: the Negro Ants often came, 
notwithstanding my presence, to liberate 
them from their imprisonment. ‘The co- 
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