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WHITE ANTS. 
shown the queen, and in the right hand of Fig. i is seen one of 
the workers passing through the tunnel. None but the workers 
can pass through so small an aperture, for the fighters or 
soldiers are of very much greater size than the workers, as may 
be seen at Fig. 4. 
TERMITE CELL. 
The queen, however, is necessarily very much reduced in 
size, as, if she had been drawn of her full dimensions, she would 
have occupied the whole length of the drawing. Before she is 
immured in the royal cell, she is by no means a large insect, 
