KATURAL HISTORY. 
GliNUS V. 
M Y R M E L I O N. 
Charader. 
TT' II E mouth is armed with jaws, two 
teeth, and lour long fpiral tongues. The 
tail, in the male fex, is forked. '1 heir feel- 
ers are club-foinied, and as long as the 
breall : and the wings bent downwards. 
MYRMELION . — The ANT-EATER. 
A S few infecls afford greater entertain- 
ment, or gratify curiofity more, by their wiles 
and ftratageins, than this ; we lhall forbear 
all uninterelling defeription, to confine our- 
felves to w'hat we think more eflential. Be- 
fore the head of the larvte, is placed a dem 
tated forceps, with which they catch and 
fuck Hies, and ants efpecially. '1 his animal 
having a retrogade motion, which prevents 
its being able to puifue its prey, it has re- 
courfe to the following llratagem. Having 
dived into the fand, or foft mould, it hol- 
lows out furrows, that meet in a centre, and 
grows deeper by degree-. The fuperfluous 
land it carefully removes from the feene ol 
attion j 
