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On Guard. 



The grub of the tiger-beetle has ascended his shaft, and remains at the mouth with eves and jaws on a level with the surface waiting for 

 some other Insect to come withm reach. From this point of view his expressioti is scarcely of an alluring character. Six times the actual size. 



