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HUBBARD'S account of the insects shows greater imagination, if Iess precision, than CHAPMAN'S a quarter of a century earlier. It is certain however that as yet we are only at the beginning of a know- 38 ledge of these insect communltles. Whether future investigators will confirm in all respects the inferences of the early discoverers or not, the many different species, when their ways are brought to light, will undoubtedly reveal many fresh and unexpected varieties of social organization and behaviour.
Certain Passalidae, in most of the regions inhabited by them, are found between the loose bark and the wood of old trees or in cracks in the wood and, in order that they may be able to squeeze into such small spaces, are extremely flat. Horns, in such a case, would 31 obviously be in the way and they are always absent. In Australia and Malaya occur peculiarly convex forms belonging to the genus Aulacocyclus and it is interesting to find that, although these are less· closely related to the horned P.
The mind of an insect cannot be adequately interpreted even by the imaginative genius of a MAETERLINCK. It is a great merit of FABRE'S work that he was accustomed to relate in detail what he actually saw, so that his interpretations, which other observers have not always confirmed, can be judged according to their merits. The difficulties of investigation are especially great in the case of burrowing insects such as are most of those dealt with here. Their operations are performed in darkness and cease if a ray of light falls upon them.