pup

Acicula lineata is a very small shell, the size of the Pupæ; mainly northern in distribution.

Sir John Lubbock, after contriving this arrangement, marked an ant and put it upon the pupæ on the top of the pencil.

On an average a successful expedition would bring back to the colony a thousand pupæ or larvæ.

A special troop guards each opening, and only allows such of the besieged to pass out as carry no pupæ.

By this means the sanguine ants in a few minutes manage to have all the defenders out of the nests and the pupæ left behind.