Ants

or ForMIciIpD#, area family of HYyMEN- They live in communities composed of different sexes, viz. males, females, and The males and females are both winged, are found only for a short period every year, after pairing the males die, and the females lose wings. The neuters, of one or more cla es, wingle ; they are produced from underfed larve, and the ants regulate the proportions females and neuters by varying the food supply ) to the the queens animals now tions Thus winter, radicle; make ants, young keep South rivers. ants, Ant-thrushes fully the of beauty Antwerp province in the the The and every cation dral Europe, It has broad. self Hanseatic larve. community. are they generally are controlled some and others, organised remove into aphides American The but belong coloured Malay and of seventh ANTWERP river numerous unshipping quarter exists is one and six In is buried. Antwerp. The neuters do the The males are fertile females. Like are remarkably intelligent, admitted that many by reason and ants, ¢.g. Atta, store un prevent its germination ey. cit on, the attacks on the the larve to their own, slaves; others again, for the sake of their ants make tunnels “ White Ants,” or Termites, to the Neuroptera. (Pittid@), a family thrush-like birds, most Archipelago, attaining variety in Borneo ang (Fr. Anrers), the chief the same name in Belgium, century A.D., on the CATHEDRAL. (From the Scheldt, about 50 miles canals greatly facilitate of goods which of the globe, and with all foreign countries. of the finest Gothic buildings contains three masterpieces aisles, and is 600 feet the church of St. James ‘The Hétel de Ville, League, and the old house whole work of stingle , The most social and it is of their opera not by instinct. grain for the by gnawing the foraging ant, nests of other and make the as Hypo cline a, milk; and some under wide are not true of beaut i abundant in their maximum Sumatra. town of the was founded right bank of Place Verte.) from the sea. the shipping pa to and from steam communi-._The cathein North of Kubens. long by 250 feet the painter him the Hotel of the of Plant ins the 170 noble velopment four prosperous, and first later date steadily Spanish these Spanish that to hands, rival rendered to Holland. in end Since by alumina, of Egypt, with tions viz. to twelfth Seljukian tions corresponds rises after @, Antwerp Blue. ( 154 1inters are interesting architectural monuments. erhaps the best thing that Antwerp po e es is its picture gallery, thoroughly illustrating the deof Dutch and Flemish art. For three or centuries after its foundation Antwerp, though suffered from the Normans, from fires from plagues, and never stood out as one of the ports of Europe till the 12th century. A little it joined the Hanseatic League, and from that until the closing of the Scheldt in 1648, it grew in wealth and population, though the armies twice captured it. On one of occasions (1576) what was known as “the Fury” raged with such disastrous effect the traces of it can be clearly distinguished this day. In 1792 the city pa ed into French and Napoleon did all he could to make it a port to London. In 1814 Antwerp was sur by the Treaty of Paris, a previous attempt take it having failed. It was then a igned to When Belgium claimed its independence 1830 Antwerp was held by the Dutch garrison, had to be reduced by bombardment in 1832. that date it has belonged to Belgium. Antwerp Blue, 4 mineral pigment prepared precipitating Pru ian blue in combination with It is therefore e entially a diluted variety Pru ian blue.