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the wood-ants with more attention, transferred colo- 

 nies of them to his artificial formicaries, plunging 

 the feet of the stand into water to prevent their es- 

 cape till they were reconciled to their abode, and 

 had made some progress in repairing it. The fol- 

 lowing is a figure of the apparatus which he used for 

 this purpose. 



There is this remarkable difference in the nest of 

 the wood-ants, that they do not construct a long co- 

 vert way as if for concealment, as the yellow and 

 the brown ants do. The wood-ants are not, like them, 

 afraid of being surprised by enemies, at least during 

 the day, when the whole colony is either foraging in 

 the vicinity or employed on the exterior. But the 

 proceedings of the wood-ants at night are well wor- 

 thy of notice; and when M. Huber began to study 



