AN AMBUSHED BANDIT. 



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open. What is the creature waiting for? Were you to watch 

 patiently you would see an ant roaming about over the sand 



Fig. 28. — Ant-lion and its Trap. 



in search of food. Suddenly it comes to the brink of the cone- 

 like trap, the sand gives away beneath its feet, and it falls into 



Fio. 29. —Trapping of the Ants. 



the jaws of the ambushed bandit at the bottom. There the 

 victim is soon disposed of. It is caught and killed by the 



