HONEY ANTS 



It could hardly be by chance that the roof to which 

 they cling has been left rough and gritty, instead of 

 being smoothed off as are the galleries. At least, so it 

 is, and the fact aids the rotunds to keep their place. 



The author has somewhat anticipated. When the 

 delightful vision of one of those vaulted store-rooms, 

 with its roof crowded with honey-bearers, had located 

 and identified their nests, the first question that arose 

 was, whence do the ants get their honey? The theory 

 that the rotunds "elaborated" it was dismissed as a 

 vain imagination. It was plain enough that they must 

 be sedentary creatures, and that the bulk of the store 

 within their immense abdomens must have come from 



HONEY ANTS ASSEMBLED UPON THE ROUGH ROOF OF A VAULTED 

 CHAMBER 



