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are folded above each other, forming an acute-angled roof 
above the long, slender abdomen. The antennz 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. 
