Report of the Commissioners . Fig. Fig. 65. Fig. 64 shows one of our most common Dragon Flieh (Libellula trimaculata), and Fig. 65, L. quadrimaculata.[J/r. Bethune.\ 60 INSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. The lace-winged flies to which I referred as feeding upon plant-lice, belong to thisorder. The perfect insect is very beautiful in appearance. Its wings resemble very finelace, the body is green, and it has large prominent golden eyes, but unhappily it also pos-sesses a very oflensive odour. It deposits its eggs upon stems that are entirely out ofproportion to the size of the eggs it lays,
Report of the Commissioners . Fig. Fig. 65. Fig. 64 shows one of our most common Dragon Flieh (Libellula trimaculata), and Fig. 65, L. quadrimaculata.[J/r. Bethune.\ 60 INSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. The lace-winged flies to which I referred as feeding upon plant-lice, belong to thisorder. The perfect insect is very beautiful in appearance. Its wings resemble very finelace, the body is green, and it has large prominent golden eyes, but unhappily it also pos-sesses a very oflensive odour. It deposits its eggs upon stems that are entirely out ofproportion to the size of the eggs it lays, and which maintain them in an elevated posi-tion above the surface of the leaves or twigs on which they are deposited. THE SPIDER FAMILY—ArachnidCB. Spiders, though not properly termed insects, are highly beneficial. They belong tothe group Ai-acJuivJce, and are of the same class as the scorpions, and some other creatures,of that kind. They destroy a large number of insects, mostly of the winged classes,though the more predacious spi
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