Half hours with insects . of the mothare broad and flattened like those of the beetle. The burrows of the mole cricket arc, in North Carolina,as I have been informed by Mr. Slnite, tenanted by a largebug, which has fore feet somewhat like those of the mole 5 294 HALF HOUKS WITH INSECTS. [Packakd. cricket. Here the change in form has been evidently in-duced by its fossorial life, and we should not perhaps regardthis as a case of protective mimicry. There are other bugs,of large .size, with the legs provided with flattened expan-sions, like some long-horned beetles. 6. INSECTS AS ARCHITECTS. Pac
Half hours with insects . of the mothare broad and flattened like those of the beetle. The burrows of the mole cricket arc, in North Carolina,as I have been informed by Mr. Slnite, tenanted by a largebug, which has fore feet somewhat like those of the mole 5 294 HALF HOUKS WITH INSECTS. [Packakd. cricket. Here the change in form has been evidently in-duced by its fossorial life, and we should not perhaps regardthis as a case of protective mimicry. There are other bugs,of large .size, with the legs provided with flattened expan-sions, like some long-horned beetles. 6. INSECTS AS ARCHITECTS. Packaku.] insects as AECillTECTS. 295 11* Insects as Jirdxitects* A N historical sketcli of human architecture would^^~\ scarcely begin Avith a description of the capitol atWashington, or of Westminster Abbey, or the stillincomplete catliedral of Cologne, but would rather extendback to the earliest forms of human shelter, even to thepile dwellings of prehistoric Switzerland ; nor would thehistorian disregard the rock shelters of Europe and thiscountry, or tlie caves of Dordogne. In his accounts of therise of the art of building he would be obliged to treat thesubject after the method of tlie paleontologist, and recon-struct the primitive dwellings of the men of the reindeerperiod from the scanty relics of their age, with the aid ofthe huts and wigwams of savage tribes now living. Work-ing out these problems, he would then reconstruct in theimagination the vast structure of Stonehenge, the palaces ofthe Aztecs, and would then be prepared to deal with the riseof a
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