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Their beautiful appearance viewed through a microscope 83 



They eat not, but sleep all the winter - &4 



The remarkable architecture of ants - &> 



The employment of working ants 88 



The red- green, and black ants of Africa - 89 



22. Of the ant-eater, or formica-leo - - ib- 

 His peculiar manner of ensnaring his prey, and various 



other extraordinary operations - 90 



23. OfBees - 92 

 The habitation of bees - 93 



t How honey is extracted 94 



Of honey-dews 95 

 , A kind of honey-dew produced by a small insect called 



the vine-fretter ib. 



Ants as fond of this as bees - 96 



The curiosity of the sting of a bee, or wasp ib. 

 The peculiar privileges attendant on, and homage paid 



to the queen bee 98 



The swarming of bees - 99 



24. Of the polypus 101 

 Of various corallines, a species of polypi - ib. 

 The polypus, an aquatic animal, found in ditch-water 103 

 Experiments on a polypus 104 

 Clustering polypi more strange than the rest ib. 

 The nature of corallines, and the mechanism of their 



polypi - 106 



The polypus is an animal of the vermicular kind 108 



25. Of the transformation of animals 109 



Quadrupeds undergo a yearly change 110 



Viviparous animals have a more sudden change ib. 



The transformation of oviparous animals - ib. 



The transformation of tad-poles - 111 



That of the beetle-class, particularly the cock -chaffer ib, 



