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for Cantharidine, and these beetles may become a source of profit instead 
of a source of loss. As food, the bodies of insects are valuable to all but 
the most civilised nations ; while a not unimportant branch of trade is 
the collection of immature Formicidce (“ Ant’s Eggs ”) for feeding tame 
game birds and the capture of flies and other small insects as food for 
cage birds and the like is carried out on a large scale. 
Finally, insects are enrolled, with every other description of natural 
product, in the list of materials used by woman in her personal adornment. 
This is not as insignificant as it may appear and, though few insects can 
be used directly (e.g. } Buprestids) many provide models for both art and 
millinery. 
