XIV CONTENTS. 



" In the swift Tiger and slow Oil Beetles, see the failed hare 

 and tortoise." 



The rapid Cicindela, diverted from its course by the sight of insect prey, ex- 

 emplifies anew the old adage, that " the race is not always to the swift " 201 



45. FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT OVER-NICE. 



All the insects of this group, excepting one, consist of Plant Bugs (Pentato- 

 mida> } Capsida, &c.) of varied form and colour. The dark, long-bodied 

 insect creeping up the palings, is the Reduvius personatus, a bug itself, 

 but an enemy, especially in its stage of larva, to our domestic horror 

 Cimex lectularius. The Plant Bug, on a branch of Southernwood below, 

 is remarkable fur a pair of singularly-shaped antenuse, and its wings 

 (not shown in the figure) are of a beautiful violet-blue : the general 

 colour of the insect is a dark olive 202 



" Steeds of mettle and muscle, for a steeple-chune in earnest." 



It' chases such as these were never calendared in graver fashion if, as here. 

 the vanltcrs were but Fleas the chase but " coming oil'" on paper, the 

 horse might leap for joy, the man rise higher, that is, to bis proper 

 place, as an animal of reason and humanity 21'. 



46. STORY OF AS OGRE. 



The insect Ogre here represented is the fierce and wily grub of the Ant-lion 

 (Formica Leo}. On the fragment in the foreground it is shown in de- 

 formity unveiled, and more backward is seen one of the cleverly-con- 

 structed pitfalls in which it is accustomed to lie buried, all but its 

 extended jaws, for the entrapment of its prey. The globular object to- 

 wards the left is the pupariuni, or pupa-case, of this remarkable creature, 

 itself remarkable for the smalmess of its size, as compared with that of 

 the imago (winged insect), which is shown in process of emergeinent 

 from it. It its perfect expansion, it soars above the Ant-lion Fly com- 

 plete 220 



" Together with the lull they lift her on their shoulders." 



The Formic heroine (a captive Ant) escapes from the clutches of the Ant-lion 

 Ogre, by concealment in the hollow ball (pttparium) of the monster's 

 own weaving 217 



