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ANIMAL FORMS 



pitfalls are pelted with sand, which the ant-lion throws at 

 them with a jerky motion of the head, and are speedily 

 tumbled down the shifting sides of the funnel to be seized 

 and devoured. 



While the white ants are not in any way related to the 

 true ants, they possess many similar habits. Associated in 

 great companies, they excavate winding galleries in old logs 

 and stumps, and, further, are most interesting because of 

 the division of labor among the various members. The 

 wingless forms are divided into the workers, which exca- 

 vate, care for the young, and otherwise labor for the good 

 of the others ; and into the soldiers, huge-headed forms. 





Fiu. 72. Ant-lion larva plowing its way through the sand (upper figure) while an- 

 other is commencing the excavation of a funnel-shaped pit similar to one on right. 



Photograph by A. L. MEL&NDER and C. T. BRCES. 



whose strong jaws serve to protect the colony. The re- 

 maining winged forms are the kings and queens. In the 

 spring many of the royalty fly away from home, shed their 

 wings, unite in pairs, and set about to organize a colony. 

 The queen rapidly commences to develop eggs, and in some 



