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of every member: both the antenna? and 

 palpi were gone, cut close to the head. A 

 little later the abdomen was brought out, 

 and still later the thorax, with not an entire 

 leg left. 



QUEEN : SIDE VIEW, SHOWING PECULIAR CONFORMATION 

 OF THE T1IOKAX. 



Several times during the months of Jan- 

 uary and February I introduced into the 

 jar a number of half -grown larvae of the 

 harvester. Without any hesitation they 

 were quickly carried to the rooms below by 

 the workers minor. On the 4th of Febru- 

 ary I found a large number of the larvae of 

 the carpenter-ant (Camponotus meleus, Say). 

 They were very small, and closely packed 

 together in a chamber cut out of hard wood, 

 two inches in length and an inch and a 

 quarter in diameter, nearly circular. It was 

 packed full of larvae and eggs, the Iarva3 ap- 

 parently just hatched. I detached a small 



