AMMOPHILA AND HER CATERPILLARS 



tined to disappointment. We had been in attendance on 

 her for about a quarter of an hour when, after disappear- 

 ing for a few moments under the thick purslain leaves, 

 she came out with a green caterpillar. We had missed the 

 wonderful sight of the paralyzer at work ; but we had no 

 time to bemoan our loss, for she was making off at so 



AMMOPHILA URNARIA CARRYING CATERPILLAR TO NEST 



rapid a pace that we were well occupied in keeping up 

 with her. She hurried along with the same motion as 

 before, unembarrassed by the weight of her victim. For 

 sixty feet she kept to open ground, passing between two 

 rows of bushes ; but at the end of this division of the gar- 

 den, she plunged, very much to our dismay, into a field 



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