TCD MS 10516 folio 73 verso
[12th October 1916] the surface of the sand; every depression in the ground is to some degree lessened, and the pit of the ant-lion tends to be filled in. Grains of sand pour down the sides of the pit; it would soon be flush with the surface did not the ant-lion make every effort to contest the downpour. It hurls out the sand as fast as it rolls in; in circles it revolves round and round the bottom of its cone pitching out the sand that would engulf it. Every day of wind is for this larva a day of strenuous toil.
Though ant-lions are almost always seen waiting in the bottom of their pits, yet they sometimes wander about in the surface of the sand. A number seem to move at about the same time leaving in their tracks, lines of sinuous