164 Mr smeathman’s account of 
other infers of their lize, and are inceffantly hurtling about 
their affairs 0 8 ). 
The fecond order, or foldiers, have a very different form from 
the labourers, and have been by feme authors fuppofed to be 
the males, and the former neuters ; but they are, in fact, the 
fame infects as the foregoing, only they have undergone a 
change of form, and approached one degree nearer to the per- 
fect ftate. They are now much larger, being half an inch 
long, and equal in bulk to fifteen of the labourers (tab. X. 
%• 8 )- 
There is now likewife a moft remarkable circumftance in the 
form of the head and mouth ; for in the former ftate the mouth is 
evidently calculated for gnawing and holding bodies ; but in this 
ftate, the jaws being fhaped juft like two very fharp awls a 
little jagged (tab. X. fig 9.), they are incapable of anything 
but piercing or wounding, for which purpofes they are very 
effeftual, being as hard as a crab’s claw, and placed in a 
ftrong horny head, which is of a nut-brown colour, and 
larger than all the reft of the body together, which feems to 
labour under great difficulty in carrying it : on which account 
perhaps the animal is incapable of climbing up perpendicular 
fur faces. 
The third order, or the infeft in its perfect ftate, varies its 
form ftill more than ever. The head,, thorax, and abdomen, 
differ almoft entirely from the fame parts in the labourers and 
foldiers ; and, belidesthis, the animal is now furnifhed "with four 
fine large brownifh, tranfparent, wings, with which it is at the 
time of emigration to wing its way in fearch of a new fettle- 
\ "... 
( l8 ) rochfort, in the Hiftory of the Carribee Iflands, calls them Wood Lice, 
and mentions the deltru&ion they mahe‘ &c. p. 14-9,- 
ment C 1 *). 
