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ner of a box to place a May-fly, a Dragon-fly and an Ant- 
lion. 
Taking til the “ nerve-wing.s ” as Nenroptcra, then, one 
may .soon have a very con.sideral)le collection repre.senting 
that order. There will be the Hellgrainmites, the large, 
harnile.ss, but fierce-looking insects that fly near streams 
for a few nights about the last of June, and often frighten 
those who know nothing about them. These can be la¬ 
beled Sialidre. 
A beautiful insect of the order Neuroptera is the Tace- 
winged-fly or Golden-e3^e. It is a dainf}^ little creature, 
with green wings, a body of a paler .shade of green, slen¬ 
der, brown antennse and a pair of bright, 3^ellow eyes. 
Chr^^sopa is a Greek word meaning golden-e^^e, and this 
in.sect may be pinned b}^ itself and labeled with the family 
name Chrysopidse. 
There is an insect to be found all over th’e United States 
which, when young, lives in a little pit hollowed in flue 
sand, in such sheltered places as old horse-sheds, under 
over-hanging cliffs and river banks. It is the Ant-lion, 
known of all children by the picture-books, and yet rarely 
seen by them in nature, because so few people know where 
to look for them. The Ant-lion, when grown, emerges as 
a fine, large insect, with its four nerve-veined wings all 
alike, and with a long, slender body somewhat like that 
of a Dragon-fly. If this is captured some summer eve¬ 
ning, it will be a prize, and niu.st be proudly labeled with 
the long family name Myrnieleonidse. 
The May-flies, the Caddi.s-flies, the Stone-flies, the Drag¬ 
on-flies and the Scorpion-flies are all interesting insects, 
but their arrangement into family groups is not an easy 
matter for any but advanced students. So the bo^cs and 
girls, at first an^^way, had l)e.st be content to place them in 
the collection with just tlieir common Kngli.sh names. 
