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ter; he drops his bundle, which immediate- 

 ly unrolls, and lo ! it is a lively black ant, 

 apparently unhurt, and, to my eye, 110 way 

 different from the warrior with whom he 

 w r as so fiercely fighting. 



The books which I have read on the sub- 

 ject inform me that " the red ants carry the 

 pupae and larvae of the blacks to their nest, 

 where they rear them for slaves, but they 

 never capture the adult ant, for it would 



LAliVA, COCOON, AND PUP^E OF KED ANT. 



not stay in the new home if they did." But 

 these ants certainly carried a great number 

 of adult blacks to their nest, and I am quite 

 sure they did not run away, but stayed and 

 helped to nurse and feed the larvse. I capt- 

 ure several of the red marauders with their 

 victims, and place them under the glass. 

 The reds now pay no attention to the blacks, 



