NEUROPTERA, 





DAY-FLIES (Ephemera Vulgata), in sunset-dance. 



existence in the perfect state, in some species not 

 exceeding four hours, belong to this Order, as does 

 also the Ant-lion, (Myrmeleon,*} whose larva exca- 

 vates a funnel in sand, at the bottom of which it 

 patiently watches, till some passing ant incautiously 

 venturing too near the edge, loses her precarious 

 footing, and is carried with the slippery sand to the 

 bottom of the den. It is instantly seized by the ra- 

 pacious Ant-lion, and its juices sucked out through 

 two immense curved and tubular jaws, resembling 



myrmex, an ant, and /Uwv, leon, a lion. 



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