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IN NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 583, which has lately reached me, I read a letter from Mr. Peal on sound-producing ants, and I can corroborate his observations. It is nearly two years since I noted this fact in a species of Polyrachis, which makes its papery nests on the under side of bamboo leaves. The noise, resembling very heavily-falling rain, is caused by the insect striking the leaf by a series of spasmodic taps, both with its head and with the extremity of its abdomen, which it inflexes while so doing.
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FORBES, H. Sound-Producing Ants. Nature 24, 101–102 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024101h0
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