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 the weight of so large a dwelling would be greater than the contained caterpillar could sustain, the insect

attaches the case by one or more threads to the leaves or twigs near which it is feeding.

Foraging Ants.—Many confused statements have been published in books of travel, and copied in Natural History works, regarding these ants, which appear to have been confounded with the Saüba, a sketch of whose habits has been given in the first chapter of this work. The Saüba is a vegetable feeder, and does not attack other animals; the accounts that have been published regarding carnivorous ants which hunt in vast armies,