THE WHITE ANTS. 



It is scarcely necessary to repeat here that white ants are 

 not ants at all, but termites, and do not even belong to the 

 order of hymenoptera, but to the neuroplera, for everybody 

 knows these elementary matters now ; but it is not so 

 generally known that these distinctions imply a real diffe- 

 rence, for white ants, like chickens, run as soon as they are 

 born, and require no swaddling or cradling. Hence, you 

 never come upon a white ant carrying its papoos, as black 

 ants do when changing their residence. 



