"An insect among the Neuroptera, which undergo incomplete metamorphoses. These flutter about the banks…
"An insect among the Neuroptera, which undergo incomplete metamorphoses. These flutter about the banks…
"An insect among the Neuroptera, which undergo incomplete metamorphoses. These flutter about the banks…
"The female attains to six inches in length, and weighs as much as thirty thousand workers. It is an…
"The male weighs as much as thirty workers, and attains the length of nearly four-fifths of an inch."
"The soldiers are twice as long, and weigh as much as fifteen workers. They may be distinguished by…
"The workers are one fifth of an inch long; the body soft and of extreme delicacy, but the sharp mandibles…
A class of insects confined chiefly to the tropics. They resemble in their mode of life the true ants,…