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JOHN L. PRICER. 



It is evident from the small range in the numbers of workers 

 and larvae, and from the similarity of these outdoor colonies in 

 this respect to the two described above, that all the colonies rep- 



FlG. 2. Same as Fig. i, showing hole through which the queen found entrance 

 to the cavity. 



resented in the tables below were established during the summer 

 of 1906. The difference in the number of individuals in the dif- 

 ferent colonies is probably due to the fact that the queens left 

 their parental nests at different times, with different amounts of 

 reserve food, and met with various vicissitudes in their efforts to 



