. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. I DiM'lor hiliiiciitiis. WATER SC0I!;i« cinfrcn. Uammntufcn'.'i ctnh<piJU'tris, Dahtiler ricullcosla. Tlio next section of the ITeternptera includes ii)-pcts Mliicli are mostly terrestrial, though some are fond (jf haunting the surface of water. 'I'he Hydronietiiche are Avell- known examples of the latter insects, and are popularly known liy the name of Water- fleas. The common fJeri'is skims over the snifaci' M-ith rapiditv, wh
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. I DiM'lor hiliiiciitiis. WATER SC0I!;i« cinfrcn. Uammntufcn'.'i ctnh<piJU'tris, Dahtiler ricullcosla. Tlio next section of the ITeternptera includes ii)-pcts Mliicli are mostly terrestrial, though some are fond (jf haunting the surface of water. 'I'he Hydronietiiche are Avell- known examples of the latter insects, and are popularly known liy the name of Water- fleas. The common fJeri'is skims over the snifaci' M-ith rapiditv, wheelinu; ard turnuig as easily as a skater pei'l'urming his mano'uvres on the smooth ice. IJut the Hydronietra, a very slender creature, hardly thicker than a needle, and bearing a great rcseiidjlance to the walking-stick insect already desciibed, giidr's slowly over the . url'ace, mostly ket']dng among the aiiuatic plants at the , and passing silently as a shadow ovir the walrr. Silent and quiet as it looks, it is a terrible foe to the smaller insects, even making short excursions ashore for the pnrjiose of seeking ])rey. 1 have seen one of these insects making its way back to tlie water, Indding alolt in its fore-legs an unhappy tly which it had captured, and which it was bearing oil' in triunqdi. These insects are alile to liy, and 1 have found s]ie'dnieiis of the lieiris concealed under sto?ie:5 at the top of hills far distant froni water. The family of the ('imiciihe contains oidy one insect, the too common , a creature whicdi is su]i]ioscd to have been imported into J'lughnid from America. This odorifcKius, llat-bodied, rust-cohnired insect has derived its very ajipropriate name from the old Knuiish word Itugge, signifying a nocturnal .-^ixh tre, and used in that sense hy the (dd wiiters. These creatures are enalded, by means of tlieir Hat bodies, to creep into tJK smallest crevices ; and when they have onci' taken of a room, can bo with dilll
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