arc animated beings. Another species resem bins 1hi exactly, eXcept in ciour, winch is a pure white, and iS equally the inhabitant of damp situations.

The third genus, 7erincs, is the most interesteig of any in this order, from the Cur ions arrangement of its interior (liscipline, and the

relI_cofltrive(l structure of the habitations .i.t

forms, for the preservation of its young, and the security of its stores. The surprising policy observed by this minute insect, has scare re sembiancc to that of bees) wasps, ants, and other insects that live in Communities; but from The accounts of far. Smeathman, recorded in the Philosophical Transactions, who bestow ed much observation upon their habits, in different parts of Africa, it appears that the Terines excels them all. The variety that Nature displays ni every j)art of her works, is very striking in the diflBrent contrivances, or instincts, bestowed on these various tribes of of insects, to effect the same purposes. The nest of the bee, the wasp, aria the ant, have long been the theme of admiration, for their neatness, beauty, order., and regularity but we shall find that those of the Vi ermitos are constructed with still more art, and that the

structure is occasionally varied, to adapt itself

to circumstances,

These