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are folded above each other, forming an acute-angled roof 

 above the long, slender abdomen. The antennae or feelers 

 are short, stout and club-shaped, and the wings long, narrow 

 and densely veined. 



Myrmeleon obsoletus, a name given to this insect by Thomas 

 Say, a naturalist of repute, who lived in Philadelphia in the 

 early half of the present century, is by no means a rare 

 species, if search is made in the proper places. In the cut 

 the larva is found to the right of the burrow, while deep in 

 the bottom, with the jaws only in view, is another, prepared 

 to receive the small ant just above should it lose its foothold 

 and tumble into the trap. On the wing, a little in the back- 

 ground of the picture, may be seen the adult insect, repre- 

 sented in hawking for prey over a meadowy expanse of 

 country. 



