OF NATURAL HISTORY. 41^ 



ferver removed the fand, and took out the fpider. She was perfed- 

 ly unhurt ; for the formica-leo had not made any attack upon her. 

 But, fo ftrong was her attachment to her eggs, that, though fre- 

 quently touched with a twig, fhe would not relinquifli the place 

 which contained them *. 



When arrived at its full growth, the formica-leo gives up the bu- 

 finefs of an enfnaring hunter. He deferts his former habitation, 

 and crawls about for fome time on the furface of the earth. He at 

 laft retires under the ground, fpins a round filken pod, and is fooa 

 transformed into a fly. 



CHAP. 



* Oeuvres de Bonnet, vol. 4. pag. 295. 8vo edit. Amfterdam i ■]6p. 



