120 ANIMAL FORMS 
pitfalls are pelted with sand, which the ant-lion throws at 
them with a jerky motion of the head, and are speedily 
tumbled down the shifting sides of the funnel to be seized 
and devoured. 
While the white ants are not in any way related to the 
true ants, they possess many similar habits.. Associated in 
great companies, they excavate winding galleries in old logs 
and stumps, and, further, are most interesting because of 
the division of labor among the various members. The 
wingless forms are divided into the workers, which exca- 
vate, care for the young, and otherwise labor for the good 
of the others; and into the soldiers, huge-headed forms, 
other is commencing the excavation of a funnel-shaped pit similar to one on right. 
Photograph by A. L. MELANDER and C. T. BRUEs. 
whose strong jaws serve to protect the colony. The re- 
maining winged forms are the kings and queens. In the 
spring many of the royalty fly away from home, shed their 
wings, unite in pairs, and set about to organize a colony. 
The queen rapidly commences to develop eggs, and in some 
