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A Colony, out Author tells us, from the latter 
End of Auguft to the Beginning of June, is ufually 
compofed of a large Female, and various Companies 
of Workers. And befidcs thefe, in the latter End 
of June , all July , and Part of Auguft , of a Number 
of winged Ants commonly known by the Name of 
Ant-Flies. The Government, he fays, has been uni- 
verfally taken for a Republic or Commonwealth ; 
and have been treated as a Body confiding of Males 
and Females; the former being looked upon to be 
thofe which make their Appearance with Wings in 
the Summer. But as, in the Oeconomy of Bees, 
the Generality of them have no Didin&ion of Sex, 
but make it their whole Employment to provide for 
the Young laid them by their Queen, fo the fame 
Character is found to be maintained in the Condi- 
tution of Ants. The common Ants therefore, which 
ufually prefent themfelves to our View, are, he fays, 
like the common Bees, of neither Sex, but feem 'in- 
tire ly defined to take care of, and educate the Young, 
which the Queen depolits in the Cells. 
In every perfect Colony, our Author fays, there is 
at lead one Queen; who, in the Space of 7 or 8 
Months, gives Birth to a Family, amounting, at a 
moderate Computation, to 401* 5000 ; except the red 
Queens, who arc not fo prolific. The yellow Ants 
being the mod frequent, he gives a very particular 
and curious Dcfcription of their Queen ; which, he 
tells us, is perhaps 5 times larger than any of her . 
Subjcfts; and that, moreover, in her Front fhe has 
three Eyes, in a triangular Form, which are lefs than 
the two common ones on each Side her Head. I omit 
ether Particulars, as alfo his Dcfcription of the other 
Queens, j 
