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our gardens, aud may be also those that we find housing them- 

 selves under masonry wails. Tiie Sauba Ant is Cephalotes 

 indeed, while the others though certainly big-headed compared 

 to other Ants, are but mildly so, when compared with the Sauba 

 Ant. 



I had not intended to have written again on Parasol Ants, 

 until I was jirepared to have given a full account of them and 

 their habits from the egg till the winged ones (males and 

 females) escaped from the nest. But owing to the destruction 

 of my nest without a queen, spoken of in my last paper, as the 

 " B" nest, I offer the following results obtained during the last 

 four months regarding the Eggs, LarvK and Pu]^*. 



The eggs when laid are almost microscopic iu size, soon 

 after they become enveloped with a pearly white Huffy growth 

 and increase in size for the next ten days (about), this growth 

 is then removed by the smaller sized workers, aud the egg then 

 measures on an average 1-100 of an inch in length, is about one 

 half of its length in diameter, and is rounded at both ends. 

 The eggs while enveloped iu this fluffy growth have a tendency 

 to adhere to one another, and it is not uncommon to see an Ant 

 while moving the eggs from one part of the nest to another 

 carrying four or six sticking together. Judging from the solici- 

 tude the nurses have in moving the eggs in the nest, one is led 

 to suppose, that it must be to protect them from draught, 

 especially as in the earlier stage, the eggs are so often carried 

 beneath the fungus bed, but are returned, it may be in a few 

 hours. 



The egg after being cleaned becomes very soon the larva 

 an exceedingly minute helpless grul), both legless and blind. 

 The larvae are usually placed on the top of the nest and are 

 constantly attended by the smallest workers^tlie nurses — who 

 separate them into divisions according to their size. 



At first it seemed a mystery, how these minute grubs could 

 be fed, so systematically, knowing that each individual larva was 

 only one among so many, yet certain it was, that all were 



