Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . in the trunks ofold trees, gnawing the wood intoapartments and galleries, withlloors and partitions as tliin ascard. Formica Jiava forms itspartition-walls of a sort of papier-mdchi of saw-dust, earth, andspiders web. F. smaraijdina, anEast Indian species, forms lis nestof a thin silk-like tissue. F. hisspi-nosa, in Cayenne, makes a felt ofthe down which envelops the seedsof the Bomhax Criha. An EastIndian species, Myrmica Kirbii,forms a globular nest of a conger-ies of tile-like lamina! of cow-dung,the interior exh
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . in the trunks ofold trees, gnawing the wood intoapartments and galleries, withlloors and partitions as tliin ascard. Formica Jiava forms itspartition-walls of a sort of papier-mdchi of saw-dust, earth, andspiders web. F. smaraijdina, anEast Indian species, forms lis nestof a thin silk-like tissue. F. hisspi-nosa, in Cayenne, makes a felt ofthe down which envelops the seedsof the Bomhax Criha. An EastIndian species, Myrmica Kirbii,forms a globular nest of a conger-ies of tile-like lamina! of cow-dung,the interior exhibiting an assem-blage of apartments and galleries. Home Australian ants form their nests of the leaves of trees gluedtogether, after being first brought into the projier position by theunited strength of multitudes. Of tlie ants which form their nests in the ground, some, insteadof constructing ant-hills, seek the protection of stones, roots oftrees, &e. This is the case with some of the British species, andalso with the sugar ant of the West Indies, already Nest of Carpt^nter Ants. 214 ANTACIDS—ANTAR. Many interesting anecdotes are on record illustrative of theinstincts of ants, and of the sagacity wliich they seem to appear also to have some power of communicating with eachother, in which it has been supposed that the antenna are chieflyemployed. Some such power might be supposed to be necessary,if we could venture to reason from analogy upon sucli a subject,not only to their architectural and otiier ordinary operations, inwhich many must take part, systematically and conjointly, but alsoin their predatory and warlike excursions; for these also some ofthe species have. If, during the jn-edatory excursions of the Attacejihalotes (a South American species), an intervening spacje occurswliich they cannot cross, some of the creatures link tliemselves to-
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