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CHAP. XI. 
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SANGUINE 
ANTS. 
Pur Sanguine Ants present us com- 
pound ant-hills of a different kind. From 
their analogy to the Legionary Ants, 
they will be found to corroborate the 
preceding facts, and will still elucidate 
this subject, by the contrast of their 
conduct. with that of the Legionaries, 
who pass from a state of combat to a state 
of ease. 
They owe the name they bear to the 
colour of the head and thorax: the abdo- 
men is ash-coloured and slightly bronzed; 
the feet of a blood-red. These ants are 
larger than the Legionaries, whom they 
