THE LION ANT. 
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Externally, the lion ant prefents no features that are 
remarkable. The head is broad, of a brown colour, 
fpotted with yellow : On each fide are placed two large 
eyes, and beneath them the antennae, thickening towards! 
the point, and fhorter than the thorax. The neck is 
longer than that of mod infe&s, and can be flretched 
or fhortened at pleafure. The thorax is of a dirty white, 
and upon the annuli which compofe it are feen by the 
microfcope, the organs of refpiration f. 
f Reaumur, Tome VI. mem x, p. 339, 
