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ANIMALS OF EGA. 



Chap. V. 



the weight of so large a dwelling would be greater 

 than the contained caterpillar could sustain, the insect 



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Sack-bearing Caterpillar (Saccophora). 



attaches the case by one or more threads to the leaves 

 or twigs near which it is feeding. 



Foraging Ants. — Many confused statements have 

 been published in books of travel, and copied in Natural 

 History works, regarding these ants, which appear to 

 have been confounded with the Sauba, a sketch of whose 

 habits has been given in the first chapter of this work. 

 The Sauba is a vegetable feeder, and does not attack 

 other animals ; the accounts that have been published 

 regarding carnivorous ants which hunt in vast armies, 



