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Rh Every perfect Colony of Ants, has at leat one Queen, who, in the Space of Seven or Eight Months, gives Birth to a Family, at a moderate Computation amounting to Four or Five Thouand: Except the Red Queens who are not o prolific. She is eaily ditinguished by her uperior Largenes, different Colour, and the particular Repect hown her by the ret.

As the Yellow Ants are mot frequent, I hall give a Decription of their Queen, and afterwards mention any Circultances wherein the others differ from her.

A Queen of the Yellow Ants, is in regard of Size perhaps five Times larger than any of her Subjects. Her Colour is a kind of Bay intermixt with Yellow, and carries the Glos of a fine Velvet. Her Head is funihed, like the common Ants, with a Mouth, a double Saw, a Pair of Feelers, two Eyes one on each Side of her HEad, and a Neck which unites it to the Breat. She has moreover on her Front three Eyes les than the others, and placed in a triangular Form. They are very convex, of a brown Colour, and jut out like mall Beads. We meet with the ame Apparatus in Bees, and probably the Reaon is the ame in both. Rh