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THE NATURALIST IN AUSTRALIA. 
In accord with the character of the peat-like deposits out of which they are excavated, 
these ant-hills are of a black or dark ash-grey tint. A very prominent feature 
of these Laura 
They consist, as 
shown in the 
accompanying 
photographs, of 
a congeries of 
slender pin- 
nacles_ erected 
in the same 
straight line 
close to one 
another, which 
are subsequent- 
ly amalgamated. 
Upon these, 
again, humerous 
subsidiary pin- 
nacles are usu- 
ally constructed. 
Some of the 
larger and wider 
of these termi- 
taries, when 
viewed end on, 
as shown in 
Plate XX., pre- 
sent, with their 
closely crowded 
spires and pin- 
nacles, a not 
unremote resem- 
blance to the 
architectural 
Valley Meridian Ant nests is their highly ornate structural type. 
W. Saville-Kent, Photo, 
BROADSIDE VIEW OF LAURA VALLEY MERIDIAN ANTS’ NEST. 
