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Show i TUBE'S CflLUw. 1. Cba Ichneumon Tly 7alcc4 Its Natural Unciny Gevw Its Purpose. Tiio ichneumon fly of Ceylon is th Oatriral enemy of tho spider. Thininsec (a green in color, and in form resemble: a wasp with a marvolously thin waist It makes its no3t of well worked clay and then goes on a hunting expedition, ?,rts victims are invariably spiders of v rious kinds, but all aro subject to- the tamo medo of treatment. A scientific sting injects some poison, which effectually effec-tually paralyzes tho luckless .spider, who is then carried off to tho nest; ann thero fastened with a dab of moisc clay Another and another victim is brought to this chamber of horrors. Then the prescient mother ichneumon fly proceed So deposit her eggs, ono in the body oi eaob spider, which can just movo its legs in a Vague, aimless manner, lint can pffcr no resistance. This dona tho fly returns to her worfc ob a mason. She prepares moro clay anfi builds up the entrance to this ghastlj cell. Then she commences a uew cell, which she furnishes in like manuor, and then closes; then she adds yet anothei Bell, and so proceeds until her storo o! eggs ro all' provided for, and her tasi In life being accomplished aho dies, leaving her 6vil brood to hatch at lei' sure In due time these horrid littl maggots come to life and find themselves them-selves cradled in a larder of fresh meat Each poor spider is still alive, and hit Juices afford nutriment for tho ichneu mon grab till it is ready to pass in thi chrysalis stage, thonce to emerge as t winged fly fullv prepared to carry otf the traditions of its ancestors with n yard to spiders -Ashton Reporter, |