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THE UNIVERSE. 



CHAPTER IV. 



HUNTING INSECTS. 



]\Iany insects only live by hunting, and the measures 

 they resort to in this pursuit would justify a division into 

 distinct classes. 



Some pursue their prey OA^er hills and thickets, and 

 attack it with the courage of a lion. The Carabi, their 

 robes gleaming with gold and blue, and the active tiger- 



103. Cicindcla campestris. 104. Carabus purpureus. lO.j. Chinese Cicindela. 



beetles, are of this class. And yet neither their beauty nor 

 their unappreciated services find favour with man; instead 



they do not all make use of dung, as in Euro])e. In the part where I saw them 

 busy forming their balls, the river was bordered by a wide desert, so that it 

 was difficult to see where they could have found dung. Their balls seemed 

 made entirely of Nile mud. 



