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and branches of fruit trees, and their 

 bite is extremely painful. 



The Flying Ants of Guiana are in 

 fize almoft equal to the former. The 

 head is triangular, with two antennae, 

 or feelers. The body confifts of two 

 parts, connected by a fmall firing : from 

 the forepart, or thorax, arife the legs, 

 which are fix in number, and each has 

 three joints. Each Ant has four thin 

 tranfparent wings, of a reddifh brown 

 colour. Their habitations are fubterra- 

 neous, like thofe of moles ; but in the 

 wet feafons, when the rains have pene- 

 trated far in the earth, they are forced 

 to quit their cells, which are drowned 

 in water, and efcape by their wings. 

 At thefe feafons they are often feen in 

 flocks, which obfcure the air, and ren- 

 der it difficult to breathe where they 

 come, which is always towards the 

 houfes, for fhelter. 



Wood. 



