. The book of bugs. The Wicked Flea. 55 living thing. All other creatures of the six-legged kind are put into nomenclative pens according to their wings. If they have hard-shell backs like the potato-bug, they are Coleoptera, or beetles; if they have half-wings like a squash-bug, they are Hemiptera, or true bugs; if they have one pair of thin gauzy wings, like flies, mosquitoes, and such, they are Diptera ; if they have two pair of these thin wings like bees, wasps, ants, saw-flies, and dragon- flies, they are Hymenoptera ; if they have straight wings like crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts,
. The book of bugs. The Wicked Flea. 55 living thing. All other creatures of the six-legged kind are put into nomenclative pens according to their wings. If they have hard-shell backs like the potato-bug, they are Coleoptera, or beetles; if they have half-wings like a squash-bug, they are Hemiptera, or true bugs; if they have one pair of thin gauzy wings, like flies, mosquitoes, and such, they are Diptera ; if they have two pair of these thin wings like bees, wasps, ants, saw-flies, and dragon- flies, they are Hymenoptera ; if they have straight wings like crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts, they are Orthop- tera; if their wings are covered with a mealy powder like butterflies and clothes-moths, they are Lepidoptera ; but what are you to do with an insect that has no wings at all? The best guess is that at one time they did have two wings like the flies. This was a good while ago. I have not the figures by me at the moment, but a little matter. Fig. 12. Pulex irrifans, European flea; a, larva; fi, pupa; c, imago. of some five or six millions of years ought not to bother us. \Ye will say that it was quite a while ago that they held a convention and decided to secede from the regular, orthodox, two-winged set and strike out on a new line for themselves. They didn't see the sense of justification by works when there were so many red-blooded animals about into whose fur one might snuggle down and keep warm. Grace abounded in the shape of hot, nourishing. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sutherland, Harvey. New York ; London : Street & Smith
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