. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . bjects of them by imposing an annual tribute of acertain quantity. Bags full of lice were found in Montezumas palace, bythe Spanish invaders. THE If the flea be examined with a microscope, it will be observed to have asmall head, large eyes, and a roundish body. It has two feelers, or horns,which are short, and composed of four joints; and between these lies its Pulex irritans, Lin. The order Syphonaptera, under which this genus comes, has thebody compres
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . bjects of them by imposing an annual tribute of acertain quantity. Bags full of lice were found in Montezumas palace, bythe Spanish invaders. THE If the flea be examined with a microscope, it will be observed to have asmall head, large eyes, and a roundish body. It has two feelers, or horns,which are short, and composed of four joints; and between these lies its Pulex irritans, Lin. The order Syphonaptera, under which this genus comes, has thebody compressed; mouth with a sucker of two pieces, included between two articulatedlaminae, which united, form a rostrum or proboscis either cylindrical or conical, and ofwhich the base is covered with scales. INSECTA—GLOW S23 trunk, which it buries in the skin, and through which it sucks the blood inlarge quantities. Tbe body appears to be all over curiously adorned with asuit of polished sable armor, neatly joined, and beset with multitudes 01sharp pins, almost like the quills of a porcupine. It has six legs, the joints. of which are so adapted, that it can, as it were, fold them up one within an-other; and when it leaps, they all spring out at once, whereby its wholestrength is exerted, and the body raised above two hundred times its owndiameter. THE GLOW No two insects can differ more than the male and the female of thisspecies from each other. The male is in every respect a beetle, havingcases to its wings, and rising in the air at pleasure; the female, on the con-trary, has none, but is entirely a creeping insect, and is obliged to wait theapproaches of her capricious companion. The body of the female has elevenjoints, with a shield breast-plate, the shape of which is oval; the head isplaced over this, and is very small, and the three last joints of her body areof a yellowish color; but what distinguishes it from all other animals, isthe shining light which i
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