[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.456 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.456 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.456 - **Language:** English ### [c10.456](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.456) A.D. c. 250.—It seems probable that Aelian speaks of White Ants.—“But the Indian ants construct a kind of heaped-up dwellings, and these not in depressed or flat positions easily liable to be flooded, but in lofty and elevated positions. . .”—\*De Nat. Animal.\* xvi. cap. 15. - [Previous: c10.455](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.455) - [Next: c10.457](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.457) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.456](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.456) · Pramāṇa