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of its feint, in the majority of the cases, it will submit to the 

 clipping off of the tips of its legs and of its mandibles without 

 responding in any visible manner. 



15. In the ant-lion letisimulation seems to be but an exagger- 

 ated prolongation of the pause made by most animals when they 

 are startled. The total behavior of a death-feigning ant-lion 

 supports Holmes's contention that "the instinct of feigning death 

 is connected with much of what is called hypnotism in the lower 

 animals"; and endorses James, when he says: "It is really no 

 feigning of death at all and requires no self-command. It is 

 simply terror paralysis which has become so useful as to become 

 hereditary." 



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'65 [Records his experience in rearing Myrmeleon formicariiis from the 

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2. Birge, E. A. 



'73 The Ant-lion. Amer. Nat., Vol. VII., p. 432. 



3. Brischke, C. 



'79 Ueber das Eierlagen von Myrmeleon. Ent. Nachr., pp. 29-30. 



4. Comes, Salvatore. 



'09 Stereotropismo, Geotropismo, e Termotropismo nella Larva de 

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5. Comstock, Mrs. A. B. 



'13 Handbook of Nature Study, pp. 395-397. 



6. Emerton, J. H. The Ant Lion. Amer. Nat., 1871, Vol. IV., pp. 705-708. 



7. Ferrari. 



'65 Notes on the Habits of the Larva of Acanthaclisis. Wien Ent. Mon., 

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8. Kirby and Spence. 



'56 Introduction to Entomology, 7th edition, 242-244. 



9. Lydekker, R. 



New Natural History, Vol. VI., pp. 165-166. 



10. McCook, H. C. 



'07 Nature's Craftsmen, pp. 129-139. 



11. MacLachlan. 



'65 Habits of Myrmeleon formicarius L. Ent. Mag., Vol. II, pp. 73-75. 



12. MacLachlan. 



'66 [Note on eggs.] Bull. Soc. Entom. Fr., xvi. 



13. Moffat, J. A. 



'84 Notes on Ant Lions. Canad. Entom., Vol. XVI., pp. 121-122. 

 1 Practically every text-book on entomology and many popular books on insects 

 treat of ant-lions. With the exception of those to which special mention is made, 

 they are omitted from this list. 



