IN CAMP. 



As* is well known, this notorious and 

 vicious ant inhabits trees and makes a 

 nest of leaves which it fastens together 

 in a most ingenious manner. The 

 adult ant possesses no material with 

 which to fix up the leaves, but the 

 immature ant or larva (as E. E. Green of 

 Ceylon has shown) has glands which 

 secrete a sticky substance and the adult 

 ants make use of the grub much as we use 

 a gum bottle. Several ants hold the 

 leaves together whilst others, each seizing 

 a grub and holding it between their man- 

 dibles as depicted in the enlarged figure 

 here, use it as a kind of animated gum 

 bottle to wet with its sticky material the 

 edges of the leaves, which are then press- 

 ed together by the ants holding them. 



It is in this manner that those nests, 

 consisting of a mass of stuck together 

 green and dead sal leaves (similar to the 

 one shown on a reduced scale on the next 

 page) which are to be seen so commonly 

 in sal forest and elsewhere, are made. If 



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