Ixxiv LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



of the room without the danger of stepping with my bare feet 

 Dn the wasps, which probably covered the floor of the room, 

 and so I got out of it. I then called to my servants to bring 

 a lighted candle. As soon as they saw the animals they de- 

 clared that they did not sting, and handled them without fear. 

 Thus reassured I went back to my room, and saw that it was 

 rilled with insects which appeared to have come up as full- 

 grown winged ants from a hole between the stones of the floor. 

 It is clearly the habit of these ants to live in the ground in their 

 imperfect condition, and when perfect the winged specimens 

 fly away. They thought little of the fitness of time and place 

 when they ruthlessly disturbed my rest. It was nearly an hour 

 and a half before they had all flown out to a light set outside 

 the room to attract them. About a year afterwards the same 

 thing happened in the same room. I sent the insect to the 

 Netherlands, to tho Leyden Museum, and it has since been 

 determined by Ritsema to be Dorylus hlugii^ Hagen." 



