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animal’s retrogade motion does not allow it to run 
after the infefls on which it feeds; but it ufes 
flratagem. 
It dives down into the fand, and turning about 
in a circle, hollows out concentric furrows, and gra¬ 
dually deeper and deeper, calling at a diflance with 
its horns the fand it takes from that place. At length 
it manages to dig a hole in fhape like a funnel, at the 
bottom of which it takes its Ration, concealed in the 
fand, nothing but the open expanded forceps appear¬ 
ing above it. Mifchief overtakes every infefl that 
happens to fall into that hole : the myrmeleon, who 
is apprized of it by the grains of fand rolling down 
to the bottom, overwhelms him with a fhower of 
dull, which it ejefls with its horns 5 then drags the 
infe£l to the bottom of the hole, where it feizes him 
with its forceps, and fucks his vitals. It does not 
even fpare other myrmeleons, who chance to fall 
in. When the larva is come to its full growth ; it 
fpins itfelf a cod, fhaped like a ball ; filky within 
and fand without ; within it turns to a chryfalis. 
GENUS 6.—PANORPA. 
The Compleat infefl is very common in the fields 
during the fummer feafon ; but the larva and chry¬ 
falis are unknown. 
The end of its tail turned up in a threatening 
manner, terminating in a kind of forceps, and ap¬ 
pearing 
