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sure to afford personal acquaintance with these sylvan warriors 

 with their corselets of rusty red, and black head and tail pieces. 

 There also we may see their " fortified cities," their " military 

 roads," diverging from these "citadels" like so many rays 

 from a centre ; their regular battles with the same or a weaker 

 species; their skirmishes, their single combats, their ambus- 

 cades, their barricades, and all the pomp and circumstance 

 of Formican warfare. But though it was known centuries 

 ago that Ants made war, it was not discovered till of late 

 years, and that by Huber himself, that they also made slaves, 

 seizing them while in their infancy (their state of larva or of 

 pupa) to be trained up for their service, by compatriot slaves 

 already grown up in the same. 



The Wood-ant above mentioned has been frequently de- 

 tected in thus making free with members of its neighbours' 

 infant population, and may probably turn them to the like 

 useful account ; but the slave-maker par excellence is a 

 larger brown species, Formica rufescens, not a native of 

 the free soil of England, though the slave-made F. fv.sca, 

 or the negro, is. 



'Eoto flotog toe tine of battle ?' 



