164 Mr smeathman’s account of 
other infects of their fize, and are inceflantly bulling about 
their affairs (i 8 ). 
The fecond order, or foidiers, have a very different form from 
the labourers, and have been by forne authors fuppofed to be 
the males, and the former neuters ; but they are, in fact, the 
fame infedls as the foregoing, only they have undergone a 
change of form, and approached one degree nearer to the per- 
fect fate. They are now much larger, being half an inch, 
long, and equal in bulk to fifteen of the labourers (tab. X. 
fig, 8). 
There is now likewife a mof remarkable circumf ance in the 
form of the head and mouth ; for in the former fate the mouth is 
evidently calculated for gnawing and holding bodies ; but in this 
fate, the jaws being fhaped juf like two very fharp awls a 
little jagged (tab. X. fig p,), they are incapable of any thing 
but piercing or wounding, for which purpofes they are very 
effectual, being as hard as a crab’s claw, and. placed in a 
frong horny head, which is of a nut-brown colour,, and 
larger than all the ref of the body together, which Teems to 
labour under great difficulty in carrying it : on which account 
perhaps the animal is incapable of climbing up. perpendicular 
furfaces. 
The third order, or the in fief in its perfedb f ate, varies its 
form fill more than ever. The head, thorax, and abdomen, 
differ almof entirely from the fame parts in the labourers and: 
foidiers ; and, befides this, the animal is now furniffied with four 
fine large brownilh, tranfparent, wings, with which it is at the 
time of emigration to wing its way in fearch of a new fettle** 
( J 8) eochfort, in the Hiftory of the Carribee Hands, calls them Wood Lice,, 
and mentions the deftra&ion they make, &c* p. 149. 
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