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He soon, however, made pitfalls half an inch in diameter, ` 
which answered the purpose. Sometimes he lay on the sur- 
face of the sand with a few grains seattered over his back to 
conceal him from notice, and his jaws extended on the sur- 
face: If a fly was put into the bottle it would circle around 
close to the glass and usually run over the ant-lion’s back. 
He would jerk up his head and attempt to seize it, which he 
seldom succeeded in doing the first time. If he caught a 
leg or wing he was unable to move nearer and shorten his 
hold, and the fly escaped. He would often throw up the 
sand and try to undermine the fly. He would sometimes 
work an hour in these ways before the fly would get into a 
favorable position. I fed him every day or two until May 
15th, when he spun a spherical cocoon (Fig. 161a) around 
him, and remained enclosed until June 25th, a very hot day, 
when he came partly out, and leaving his pupa skin half 
in the cocoon appeared as a perfect fly (Fig: 159), but: did 
not spread his wings oesie 
THE RESOURCES AND CLIMATE OF CALIFORNIA. 
BY REV. A. P. PEABODY, D.D. z 
Tue thought uppermost in my mind, during a recent visit 
to California, was of gratitude to the bravely patriotic men, 
who, in the late rebellion, at the risk of their own lives 
saved this great state for the Union. 
One who has not been in California can hardly appreciate 
the magnitude of the threatened loss. The state might 
easily have maintained her independence, not only of her 
sister republics, but of all the world beside. It is poten- 
tially a self-sustaining empire. Exceeding in the aggregate 
of its territory the British Islands, it extends through all the 
degrees of latitude which are identified with a genial climate, 
