As their Side Eyes are at a conſiderable Diſtance from each other, are immoveable, and take in only Side Objects; this Triangle in all likelihood ſerves them for a Sky-light, and may be of great Uſe in traverſing the dark Receſſes of their Cities. Her Breaſt and Body are, excepting Colour and Proportion, almoſt of the ſame Make as the Workers. The Queen has indeed on each Side of her Breaſt a kind of hollow or indented Place, which ſhews as if ſhe had been originally adorned with Wings. Her Body terminates in a taper Point, and beſides the other Viſcera contains a fertile Bag of Eggs. We may obſerve in a Queen diſtended 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 anſwers the End of Reſpiration, and promotes the Circulation of her Juices.
The Queen of the ſmall Black Ants differs from this only in Reſpect of Colour. She is of a very[1] deep Brown tending to Black, and in ſome Places tinged with a faint Degree of Red.
- ↑ It may be remarked that moſt of the Queens loſe ſomewhat of their Gloſs in the Summer Months.
