HONEY-MAKING ANT OF TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO. 725 
following his given line of duty with a steadfastness which is as 
wonderful as it is admirable. By removing the soil to a depth of 
about three feet, and tracing the course of the galleries from the 
entrances (b) and (d), a small excavation is reached, across which 
is spread, in the form of a spider’s web, a net-work of squares spun 
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by the insects, the squares being about one-quarter inch across, 
and the ends of the web fastened firmly to the earth of the sides 
of the hollow space which forms the bottom of the excavation. 
In each one of the squares, supported by the web, sits one of the 
honey-making workers (No. 2), apparently in the condition of a 
prisoner, as it does not appear that these creatures ever quit the 
