Fig. 2. — The Tennes Fatalia, or Bellicosus, with wings folded. 



Fig. 3. — Termos Fatalis, or Bellicosus, with wings expanded. Fig. 4. — The Klug- 



THE WHITE ANTS. 



THEIR MANNERS AND HABITS. 



CHAPTEE I. 



1 . 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 pregn-ii^t queen. — 18. Her vast fertility. — 

 19. Care bestowed up)'i nci- 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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