WHTTE ANTS. 



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consists of cells, connected by galleries. Portions of these nests are 

 exhibited in the wall-cases, as well as photographs of the whole nests. 

 One kind of nest met with in Australia, of a flat, wedge shape, is 



Pig. 27. 



Soldier, 



Y**^ 



Female, distended with eggs. 

 Termes fat alls, all enlarged. (1307.) 



Egg, 

 greatly 

 enlarged. 



remarkable for the fact that its broad, flat surfaces always face 

 nearly east and west. 



A large photograph showing some of these nests is suspended 

 on the wall. A nest met with in Sierra Leone has the upper part 



