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As their Side Eyes are at a confiderable Diftance 
from each other, are immoveable, and take in 
only Side Obje&s; this Triangle in all likelihood 
ferves them for a Sky-light, and may be of great 
Ufe in traverfing the dark Receffes of their Cities. 
Her Breaft and Body are, excepting Colour and 
Proportion, almoft of the fameMake as theWork- 
ers. The Queen has indeed on each Side of her 
Breaft a kind of hollow or indented Place, which 
fhews as if fhe had been originally adorned with 
Wings. Her Body terminates in a taper Point, 
and befides the otherVifcera contains a fertile Bag 
of Eggs. We may obferve in a Queen diftended 
with Egg a partition along the Back, and a con¬ 
tinued Motion from one Extreme to the other, 
much like to that we find in Silk Worms; which 
anfwers the End of Refpiration, and promotes the 
Circulation of her Juiceso 
TheQueen of the fmall Black Ants differs from 
this only in Refpecft of Colour. She is of a very 
% deep Brown tending to Black, and in fome 
Places tinged with a faint Degree of Red. 
* It may be remarked that moil of the Queens lofs 
fomewhat of their Glofs in the Summer Months* 
The 
