170 THE UNIVERSE. 



Nothing can be more incredible than those facts, and yet 



87. Ant about to milk Aphides, highly magnified. 



moving the rubbish till they were nearly blocked in, or till there was only room 

 for one to pass. He admits, however, their sagacity in ejecting the dead bodies 

 of their comrades, and throwing them into a tank, their wonderful industry, and 

 their courage. The species observed by Mr. Ward also seems to have been the 

 Formica full f/inosa. TR. 



