I may digress by adding, that if the smaller workers had been the most useful to the community, and those males and females had been continually selected, which produced more and more of the smaller workers, until all the workers were in this condition; we should then have had a species of ant with neuters in nearly the same condition as those of Myrmica. For the workers of Myrmica have not even rudiments of ocelli, though the male and female ants of this genus have well-developed ocelli.
Digresio bat egin eta hauxe gehi nezake, alegia, baldin langile txikiak taldearentzat baliagarrienak izan balira eta gero eta langile txikiagoak sortzen zituzten ar eta emeak hautetsi izan balira, harik eta langile guztiak horrelakoxeak izan arte, kasu honetan ia Myrmica bezalako neutrodun inurri espezie bat izanen genuke. Izan ere, Myrmica espezieko langileek ozeluen hasi-masirik ere ez dute, genero honetako inurri ar eta emeek ozelu ongi garatuak dituzten arren.