HEADS OF VARIOUS KINDS OF ANTS 



Not a new assortment of brownies. The jaws or mandibles of ants vary remarkably in 

 form, in accordance with the uses to which they are put. Figures A, B, C, and O are piercing 

 jaws of highly predacious ants; D, E, and K are mandibles used in jumping; H represents a 

 pair of jaws adapted for cleaning and severing, and G and / for tearing. The others are of 

 more ordinary types. M shows the part of an ant head used in stopping the entrance to a burrow 

 (From Wheeler's Ants, by courtesy of the Author and of the Columbia University Press) 



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