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Chap. I. 
played, when, in making a hole in the earthy cemented 
archway of their covered roads, a host of these little 
fellows mounted the breach to cover the retreat of the 
workers. The edges of the rupture bristled with 
their armed heads as the courageous warriors ranged 
themselves in compact line around them. They at- 
1 •? :3 4 
1 — Soldiers of different species of White Ants. — 9. Ordinary shape of worker. — 
10. Winged class. 
tacked fiercely any intruding object, and as fast as 
their front ranks were destroyed, others filled up their 
places. When the jaws closed in the flesh, they suf- 
fered themselves to be torn in pieces rather than loosen 
their hold. It might be said that this instinct is 
rather a cause of their ruin than a protection when 
a colony is attacked by the well-known enemy of 
Termites, the ant-bear ; but it is the soldiers only 
