in locomotion, but when the insect advances by 

 means of the other feet, these are folded up, and 

 rest on each side of the long anterior segment of 

 the thorax. The two or three flies first given to 

 this little animal, were entirely devoured, so that 

 not a fragment remained ; but having abated its 

 hunger, it extracted the fluids chiefly, of those 

 afterwards placed within its reach. 



The upper figure ; below, is an enlarged repre- 

 sentation of a wing, and a posterior foot. 



PLATE XXV, 1 



