aki NATURAL HISTORY, 
unfortunately into this cavity. The myrmelion, be~: 
ing apprifed ofits approach, by grains of fand rolling 
down tothe bottom, immediately overwhelms the 
fallen prey with a fhower .of duft, which it cafts with 
itshorns. It then drags the poor captive to the bot- 
tom of the hole, where it is immediately deftreyed. 
Such is the rapacity of this creature, that it will prey 
in this manner even on its own fpecies. This is one. 
of the few inftances nature affords of any one fort of 
animal preying on its fellow creatures. To the dif. 
grace of man, this deftruction of each other is very 
rarely fanctioned by example, in all the infinite courfe 
of being with which the creation abounds. he 
The perfect infect of the ant eater is very feldom * 
‘found ; when itis, it isichiefly in fandy places, neat 
rivulets. 
