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15. Section through a typical nest of Formica 121 



1 6. Section through the nest of the Leaf-cutting Ant CEcodoma 



cephalotes 125 



17. Saiiba, or Leaf-cutting Ant, carrying leaf 127 



1 8. Large flat circular disk and open roads of the Agricultural 



Ant of Texas {Pogonomyrmex barbatus] made above the 

 subterranean formicary . 131 



19. Agricultural Ants cutting down obtruding grass 132 



20. Gravel cone nest of Honey Ant, built partly round a tuft of 



gramma grass 133 



21. View of a nest of a Provident Ant (Attabarbara), from Men- 



tone, showing a granary excavated in rock, and the conical 

 refuse heap .... 135 



22. Fragment taken from the trunk of an oak inhabited by Fuli- 



ginous ants 139 



23. Pseudomyrma bicolor inhabiting Acacia comigera 141 



24. Nest of a Tree Ant (CEcophylla smaragdina) from India . . 145 



25. Comb of a small Honey Bee (Apis floralis) from India ... 155 



26. Melipona Bees gathering clay 158 



27. Home of Vespa nonuegica 159 



28. Comb of Polistes tepidus, Fabr., with central pedicle . . . 167 



29. Comb of Polistes canadensis, Linn., inverted, with lateral 



support and irregular cells, many still containing nymphs . 167 



30. Nest of Icaria variegata 171 



31. Nest of a Brazilian Wasp (Apoica pallidd) 174 



32. Wasps' nest {Chartergus apicalis\ from Brazil, interior and 



exterior 185 



33. View of exterior of nest of Myrapetra scntellaris 194 



34. View of interior of nest of Myrapetra scutellaris 195 



35. A "stick-caterpillar" (Ennomos tiliaria), which in colour, 



form, and attitude, closely resembles a twig of a tree upon 

 which it lives 207 



36. Caterpillar of Early Thorn Moth (Selenia illunaria) showing 



supporting thread of silk 210 



37. Appearance of the larva of Brimstone Moth (Rnmia cratagata) 



when seated among the twigs of its commonest food-plant . 210 



