

The three larger insects in the foreground are females of the Brown Ant 

 (Formica brunnea), called sometimes Ant-flies. Two of them are actively 

 employed in pulling off their own wings, the third having already divested 

 herself of these appendages. The smaller Ants upon the ground are workers 

 of the same species : those in flight a male and female. 



A SYLVAN MORALITY ; OR, A WORD TO WIVES. 



E have a young relative, about whom we are 

 going to relate a little anecdote connected with 

 insect history, which requires, however, a few 

 prefatory words. 



At the age of 17, Emily S " came out," 

 gilt and lettered, from the Minerva Press of a fashionable 

 boarding-school, and was, two years afterwards, bound (in 

 white satin) as a bride. In the short period intervening be- 



