The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.

They stood in the centre of the scene.

[…] shapeless heaps of ruins smoked around, And desolation marked the blackened ground,

Frog-biting midges also depend on eavesdropping for reproduction, and one would predict similarly strong selection to evolve auditory adaptations for hearing and localizing calls of their hosts.