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ANIMALS OF EGA. 
Chap. Y. 
the weight of so large a dwelling would be greater 
than the contained caterpillar could sustain, the insect 
Sack-bearing Caterpillar (Saccophora). 
attaches the case by one or more threads to the leaves 
or twigs near which it is feeding. 
Foraging Ants. — Many confused statements have 
been published in books of travel, and copied in Natural 
History works, regarding these ants, which appear to 
have been confounded with the Saiiba, a sketch of whose 
habits has been given in the first chapter of this work. 
The Saiiba is a vegetable feeder, and does not attack 
other animals ; the accounts that have been published 
regarding carnivorous ants which hunt in vast armies. 
