[a. med.L.: see FORMICARY.] = FORMICARY.
1834. Medwin, Angler in Wales, I. 161. For I found that our bungalow, like every other in the cantonment, was a ‘formicaria’ [sic].
1863. Bates, Nat. Amazon, I. 32. The whole arrangement of a Formicarium, or ant-colony, and all the varied activity of ant-life, are directed to one main purpose:—the perpetuation and dissemination of the species.
1892. Edin. Rev., CLXXVI. July, 46–7. In the formicarium, or burrow of the ants, Mr. Belt repeatedly found the chambers partially filled with a flocculent spongy-looking mass, which proved to be composed of minutely subdivided pieces of leaves, penetrated and overgrown by the ramifications of a minute white fungus.
