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Imms states that "in all the higher Hymenoptera the prevalent larval type is apodous."Practically, of course, this is true of ant larvm.But what is one to say of the pairs of small structures found near the posterior border of the ventral surface of each thoracic segment ?A study of the larvae of some four hundred species of ants in 130 genera representing all of the subfamilies has con- vinced me such structures are of general occurrence through- out the Family Formicidm.They are to be found in the subfamilies Dorylinm, Cerapachyinm, Ponerinm, Myrmicine, Dolichoderine, and Formicinm.I have not found them in the Pseudomyrminm, but this may be due to the fact that
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