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Notes on three Abnormal Ants 
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lacinia (1) and the inner paramer (p). The ends of these may be 
seen projecting to the right of the stipes. 
Above the stipes is the sixth gastric segment of the male. 
Near the base of the stipes is the small, club-shaped cercus (c). 
It is entirely exposed and borne on a small extruded portion of 
unchitinized tissue. The very characteristic circular, hair-fringed 
anal aperture of the worker, if present, is distorted past recogni- 
tion. 
The legs of the two halves of the mosaic are normal for male 
and worker respectively. Those of the male side are darker and 
somewhat more curved than their opposites. Measurements 
show them to be slightly shorter. The figure cannot be used in 
this connection since no attempt was made to draw opposite 
appendages in similar positions. The difference in length is such 
that one would expect the insect to circle gradually to the left 
when walking. Actually, as has been noted, it circled sharply 
to the right, a result probably due to the distortion of muscles in 
the thorax. 
Literature Cited. 
Donisthorpe, H. 1922. On some Abnormalities in Ants. The 
Entomologists Record, Yol. XXXIV., No. 5. 
Karawajew, W. 1927. Ein Fall von lateralem Hemaphroditis- 
mus bei Ameisen und ein Fall defekter Korperbildung. 
Folia Myrmecologica et Termitologica Vol. I Nr. 4-5. 
