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8 The Breat is oblong, has a Dent in the Middle, and the upper Part is round. On diecting it you will find within a trong Mucle which gives Life and Motion to this and mot other Inects. For it is obervable that by preing this Part an Inect is immediately deprived of Life; but if you eparate it from the Head and Body, it will prolong its Motion a great while after. The under Part is furnihed with ix Legs. The two firt are hortet; the Middle ones are omewhat Longer; but the Hindmot exceed either. Each Leg has three Diviions beides a mall Lobe that unites it to the Breat. At the Extremities are two Hooks, and in the lat Part of either Leg are everal Joints. By this Artifice the Ant can adhere to Surfaces or move with great Facility and Quicknes.

The Ligament that unites the Breat and Body in the Red Ant conits of two Lobes omewhat round and divided in the Middle. A fine Thread connects it with the Breat, and another with the Body. In other Ants their appears but one Lobe between the Threads; which ries higher, and is broader than the Lobes in Red Ants. This Species has alo at the End of its Breat two harp Prickles that tand up like Thorns. Rh