the pleasures of a wandering life; while the neuters, or labourers, destitute of wings or sex, labour continuallyfor the good of the colony, in forming their habitation, which may he compared to a well-regulated republic, it is always made in a stiff soil, at the foot of a wall or tree, exposed to the sun, and consists of one or several cavities, in the form of an arched vault, hollowed out with their jaws. Each has its task assigned him one casts out the mould, whilst another is foraging abroad to collect provision for the community. Ani

naI or vegetable substances are equally acceptable to them, as they willingly eat either the smaller kinds of insects, or difiBrent fruits. their appetite for animal food has rendered them useful to anatomists, who, when they 'wish to obtain the skeleton of any animal too small to admit of being prepared in the usual way, have availed themselves of their carnivorous disposition, by placing it in a box pcrfoiated with holes, in the midst of an ant-hill, where the fleshy parts are presently consumed. Very elegant skeletons of frogs, snakes, &c. bave been obtained by this means.

Though they do not lay 14 winter stores

their economy is very curious. The eggs of *he Conimoii, or Black Ant, are white, and etreme1y small. From these are hatched the

larva