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p. 33. Ch 2. After ants diagram

Mr. Fabre in his interesting Souvenirs Entomologiques stated that a Sphex, — an insect belonging to same highly endowed order with ants — usually drags to its by the antennæ a kind of grasshopper after paralyzing it. Now when Mr. Fabre cut off the antennæ Palpi, the sphex had not the sense to drag the insect by one its legs & gave up the task as hopeless. So again when Mr Fabre removed the palpi grasshopper from the cell, the Sphex chew it up because there was papæ at 2 notwithstanding that she had parts enter it & must have perceived that her prey was gone.

(B) Cobra-snake was wiser than the above Sphex, for after they swallowed a toad within a narrow hole, he could not withdraw his head & disgorged it. The toad began to crawl away; it was again swallowed & again disgorged, but now the [several words excised] the above Sphex, had learnt a lesson