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Ant-Lions.
any years ago a friend sent me some of these remarkable insects from the Riviera, and for sixteen months I fed them as regularly as possible, but the cold of a remarkably severe winter killed them, to my great disappointment, as I had hoped to be rewarded by a sight of the perfect insect.
Ant-lions are not, I believe, found in any part of England, so I had to wait till I could again