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time, are patterns of industry, and exhibit a readiness in 

 overcoming extraordinary emergencies, which show that 



Fig. 360.— CEcodoma, or Leaf-cutter Ant of Nicaragua. —After Belt. 



they have sufficient reasoning powers to meet the exigencies 

 of their life ; their ordinary acts being instinctive — namely. 



thf fnt^iol -^Te'?B'eu'"' *°''* '"'^' (CEcodoma), the chambers belONv containing 



the results of inherited habits. The leaf-cutter ants of 

 Central and South America (Fig. 360) are famous from 



