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when success had crowned their efforts, would 
toddle up bashfully with a locust or some other 
prize struggling in their tiny paws. One little 
fellow was bitten by a large spider which he had 
courageously seized, and, as he presented his 
captive, he pointed with tearful eyes to his swollen 
finger. 
Tlie ants of this island arc a very interesting 
study. One species of a yellowish hue, with very 
long legs and aiitennse, liuilds large nests in the 
oolam trees by bending down and joining together 
the leaves. The jaws of these ants are strong and 
toothed, and pierce the edges of the leaves, when a 
viscid sap exudes, which soon hardens in the air, 
and cements the leaves together. Another ant, with 
a roundish body covered with a grey pubescence, 
forms cylindric holes in the ground, with an 
elevated tubular shaft an inch or more above the sur- 
face, composed of grains of sand. iVnother solitary 
ant jumps about the pathAvays like a Saltica, or 
hunting-spider. This is a curious elongated species, 
with a great head and thorax, and with the 
