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22 As their Side Eyes are at a coniderable Ditance from each other, are immoveable, and take in only Side Objects; this Triangle in all likelihood erves them for a Sky-light, and may be of great Ue in travering the dark Recees of their Cities. Her Breat and Body are, excepting Colour and Proportion, almot of the ame Make as the Workers. The Queen has indeed on each Side of her Breat a kind of hollow or indented Place, which hews as if he had been originally adorned with Wings. Her Body terminates in a taper Point, and beides the other Vicera contains a fertile Bag of Eggs. We may oberve in a Queen ditended with Egg a partition along the Back, and a continued Motion from one Extreme to the other, much like to that we find in Silk Worms; which anwers the End of Repiration, and promotes the Circulation of her Juices.

The Queen of the mall Black Ants differs from this only in Repect of Colour. She is of a very deep Brown tending to Black, and in ome Places tinged with a faint Degree of Red. The