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Wheeler— Ant Larvae 
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Text figure 1 . — Cerapachys ( Parasyscia ) augustae. a, eggs; b, young 
larva in lateral view. (After Wheeler, 1903 and 1910. By permission of 
Columbia University Press.) 
on the former after they had been carried under the slide by the 
workers. It was apparent also that the ants and their older larvae 
soon began to feed on the unhatched eggs and younger larvae of 
their own species, for the number of progeny decreased rapidly from 
day to day . . . These larvae were carried by the ants after the 
manner of Eciton and Leptogenys, i.e., by the neck, with the long 
slender body extending back between the legs of the worker. The 
ants were quite as careful of their larvae as of their eggs.” (Wheeler, 
1903 , p. 207 .) The figure of the young larva on page 206 is re- 
peated by Wheeler ( 1910 , Fig. 37 on p. 71 ) and is reproduced here 
(Text fig. 1) through the courtesy of Columbia University Press. 
Wheeler, 1903 , p. 209 : “The larva probably spins a cocoon . . . 
The larva is intermediate between that of Eciton and Stigmatomma. 
It is covered with shorter, less flexuous, and less abundant hairs 
than the latter and in these particulars resembles the larvae of 
Eciton.” 
Wheeler ( 1910 ) describes the larva of Parasyscia as “more cylin- 
drical” than typical ant larvae (p. 72 ) and as “smooth, slender 
larvae, with a rather dense covering of hairs” (p. 233 ). 
