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LIFE AND HER CHILDREN. 
head of the most highly developed insects, and have 
a helpless infancy, and a true chrysalis state before 
they are fit for work, the termites have come along 
quite a different line, and belong to those ancient 
Fig. 78. 
African Termites * taken out of their home. 
k, Winged king ; K, same after losing his wings ; (j, queen ; 
iv, worker ; J, soldier. All natural size. 
nerve-winged insects, which work from their earliest 
age, and have no time of rest to prepare for their 
grown-up life. So when we find these "white- 
ants " living together, and building houses, and having 
workmen and soldiers besides the true king and 
* Termes bellicosus. 
