. Eyes and no eyes. 1. SPIDER. 2. CENTIPEDELONG-LEGSk. Knob^ or balancers. I have not askedfor a Spider. Youhad better get one,and also a Hun dred-legs or Centipede,if you can findit. When you hav^put these specimensunder their glasses,look carefully atthem. You willfind a differencebetween the spider, will have none. Pick one up and make him too a prisoner. Next try to find a Wasp or a Bee. You can pick it up in your handkerchief and drop it in its box. We must go down to the river to find a May - fly or a Dragon - fly, and near there w^e shall easily get a Daddy-long-legs. But if there is no
. Eyes and no eyes. 1. SPIDER. 2. CENTIPEDELONG-LEGSk. Knob^ or balancers. I have not askedfor a Spider. Youhad better get one,and also a Hun dred-legs or Centipede,if you can findit. When you hav^put these specimensunder their glasses,look carefully atthem. You willfind a differencebetween the spider, will have none. Pick one up and make him too a prisoner. Next try to find a Wasp or a Bee. You can pick it up in your handkerchief and drop it in its box. We must go down to the river to find a May - fly or a Dragon - fly, and near there w^e shall easily get a Daddy-long-legs. But if there is not one to be seen, a Blue-bottle or a Gnat will do. You will wonder that. 4 & 6. GRASSHOPPERS. h. Breathing-holes 5. WASP. r. Rings, a Head, b Thoraxc. Abdomen. 10 INSECT LIFE. the hundred-legs and all the others. The spiderhas eight legs and the centii)ede a very greatmany, while all the others have only six. Now look at the Grasshopper, the Wasp, andthe Daddy-long-legs. You can see very clearlythat their bodies are divided into three parts—(a) the head; (6) the front body, on which the sixlegs and the wings grow; (c) the hind body, whichhas no legs on it, even when it is very long, as inthe daddy-long-legs and the May-fly. You cannotsee these divisions quite so well in the beetle be-cause its wing-cases cover the join between thefront and hind body. Wo had better call these three divisions bytheir light names—(a) head; (b) front body, orthorax; (c) hind body, or abdomen. It is becauseinsects are cut into these three parts that theyhave their name. It conies from the Latin inseco(/ cut into). The Spiders head is not clearly dividedfrom i<s body,
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