Fig. 2. The Termes Fatalis, or Bellicosus, with wings folded. 



Fig. 3. Termes Fatalis, or Bellicosus, with wings expanded. Fig. 4. The King. 



THE WHITE ANTS. 



THEIR MANNERS AND HABITS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Their classification. 2. Their mischievous habits. 3. The constitu- 

 tion of their societies. 4. Chiefly confined to the tropics. 5. 

 Figures of the king and queen. 6. Of the workers and soldiers. 

 7. Treatment of the king and queen. 8. Habits of the workers. 

 9. Of the soldiers. 10. The nymphs. 11. Physiological characters. 

 12. First establishment of a colony. 13. Their use as food 

 and medicine. 14. The election of the king and queen. 15. 

 Their subsequent treatment. 16. The impregnation of the queen. 

 17. Figure of the pregnant queen. 18. Her vast fertility. 

 19. Care bestowed upon her eggs by the workers. 20. The royal 

 body-guard. 21. The habitation of the colony. 22. Process of its 

 construction. 23. Its chambers, corridors, and approaches. 24. 



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