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bal towards its own species, as well as an unremitting foe 
of other insects ; but this is a view that need not be enter- 
tained. 
When one recognises, that a case of living plants, 
especially when soil be present, pot-plants, a box of 
“ entomological specimens,” &c., will support for a while 
a colony of this troublesome emmet, or that it will 
temporarily establish itself in one’s lunch-bag, its wide 
diffusion is readily accounted for. 
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*Not verified. 
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(7) 1883. Andre (E.) “ Species des Hymenopteres d’ 
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