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to live a life of comparative ease, and have 

 their food "brought to them by the minors. 

 This may be the reason of the non-develop- 

 ineiit of the teeth among the aristocracy. 

 But how the same parent can produce such 

 differing offspring some born to a life of 

 ease, with obsolete teeth, and others with 

 well-developed teeth to do the work is one 

 of the mysteries in Nature. The only way 

 to settle the point with regard to the man- 

 dibles beyond dispute is to find the pupae or 

 very young queens and soldiers, which I was 

 unable to do during my stay in Florida. All 

 the young were in the larval state. 



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