102 
Of A N T 5. 
Infect of this Kind. I have kept a * Mole Cricket 
in the Summer Months upon Ant Nymphs and 
Vermicles, but it did not offer to feize any of the 
Workers, 
It is obfervable of Ants, that no Infefis but 
young Millepedes are permitted to refide in their 
Apartments. Thefe are plentifully intermixed with 
the Workers in every Cell, who no ways incom¬ 
mode, or endeavour to drive them out. Numbers 
of other Infects lodge around and towards the 
Surface of Ant-hills, and particularly abundance 
of Earwigs. This Difpofition affords Partridges 
and other Animals a grateful Variety, and, accord¬ 
ing to Sir Edward Ring’s Recommendation, fliews 
the Advantage of fupplying Houfe-Coveys with 
fuch Infeeds, 
Ground, they dig up the Earth with their Claws, with 
which their Forefeet are armed for that Purpofe. Ray 
on the Creation, p. 142. 
V 
|| Called by Virtuoil, Forlntcako ; by the Greeks 
tyvpj/j'woAzcajs Leo formicarius , Anitnal parnjum Formicis 
infidians. 
* Or Gryllotalpa . You may fee a Defcription of thefe 
Infers, with their Stratagems to delude Ants, in Nat. - 
Difplciy’d) Vol. 1. Dial. 8, 
As 
