$6 Of ANTS. 
common Ants* The Bodies of thofe which you 
find in the Yellow and fmail Black Colonies have 
feven Rings 5 in moft others you can number 
only five. At or near the Extremity of each fmail 
Ant-Fly, are two or more little Hooks placed in 
the fame Manner and of the like Contexture as 
thofe you may difcover in abundance of Male In¬ 
fects of the Fly Kind. Thefe Hooks are the exter¬ 
nal Parts of Generation by which they faften to 
the Females, as is obvious from the Appearance of 
the Papilio’s of Silkworms, and a great Number of 
G nats, They have a Triangle of Eyes in the fame 
Pofition as the large Flies, and which are very 
difcernible in the * Front of the Jet Ants. They 
have alfo.four Wings united to the Breaft, which 
is more prominent than any of the others. In 
moft Particulars befides there is little or no Va¬ 
riation. 
Philofophers have ufually confounded thefe two 
different Sorts of Ant-Flies, and have looked upon 
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them all under the Character of Males ; but a little 
Curiofityin Obfervation will eafily remove fo plain 
an Error. There is fo wide and manifeft a Vari- 
'* The beft Seafon to obferve this triangle of Eyes, 
is in the Nymph State, juft before they commence Ants. 
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