Of ' ANT S. 
As of Eggs, fo likewife are there three different 
Sorts of Vermicles in a Colony of Ants; Male, 
Female, and Neutral. As many of them are laid 
and change fooner than others, there is alfo a 
conflant Variety of different Sizes. You (hall, the 
latter End of Augujl , diftinguiih four or five De¬ 
grees of Worms, befides feveral Clufters of New 
laid Eggs. 
The Procefs of Ant Vermicles is remarkable 
and worth Obfervation. The Female Eggs put on 
the Form of Worms, at fartheii fome time in Fe- 
hruary. The Male by the latter End of March , 
and the Neutral by September. The firft Summer 
•they grow very fparingly. The largdi: not ex¬ 
ceeding a fnaall Grain of Wheat; the others are 
a great deal lefs, but of various Sizes. The fucceed- 
ing Winter they feem at a ftand, and not to in- 
creafe at all. In the Beginning of % Aprils of the 
Second Year, they vifibly augment every Day, 
and in fix Weeks, or at moft by the End of May % 
the Male and Female Worms in general attain 
• The Hill and Jet Vermicles, mod Years, begin to 
augment in March 9 and hence the Flies in thefe Co^ 
lonies are much earlier. 
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