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Of ANTS.
ment of this Animal. It may be proper, before a minute Examination of theſe Parts, to mention how many Sorts of Ants have fallen under my Notice, and wherein they differ to outward Appearance.
Five Species of Ants have occured to my Obſervation; all which have to the naked Eye, without the Aſſiſtance of a Glaſs, ſome conſiderable Difference, either in reſpect of Colour Size. They will eaſily be diſtinguiſhed, if we range them under the following Characters.
1. The Hill Ant.
2. The Jet Ant.
3. The Red Ant.
4. The common Yellow Ant.
5. The ſmall Black Ant.
The [1]Hill Ants I ſo denominaste from their uſual Place of Reſidence, and ſunny Banks or Sides
- ↑ They are also called Horſe Ants, or Hippomyrmaces, from ἴππος (an Horſe) and μυρμηξ, an Ant, probably on Account of their being ſuperior in Size to the other Species. Thus we ſay Horſe Plums, Horſe Mint, Horſe Cheſnut, Horſe Laugh. Which way of Expreſſion is derived from the Greeks amongſt whom the word ἴππος, (Horſe) was often prefixed to denote Greatneſs or Strength. As in ἱππολάπαθον, ἱπποδλωσσον, ἱππομάραθον, ἱπποσέλινον, to which may be added ἱππογνώμων, a great Connoiſſeur.
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