THE WHITE ANTS. 



are probably male larvaj. "Westwood suggests that the soldiers 

 as -well as the workers, remain wingless without changing their 

 form, their development stopping short before arriving at maturity, 

 and thereby some individuals acquire that enlarged head which 

 distinguishes the soldiers, and that the real larvae of the com- 

 paratively few specimens which ultimately become winged, are as 

 yet unknown. 



These vague and discordant conjectures of naturalists so 

 eminent, show how much still remains to be discovered of the 

 physiology of the White Ants. 



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