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Argyroneta aquatica, allegorically typified above, s an armour clad 
Knight and an aquatic nymph... -; . wie os ws 10 
Her mail-clad opponent his falchion plied. 
The Syren of the Poem, hideous above water, beauteous beneath it, changes 
under her adversary’s thrust into the Water Spider, whose habits the tale 
is intended to illustrate, Her Knightly foe finds his insect prototype in 
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10. USES OF INSECTS. 
Transformation of the Silk-worm, Bombyzx Mori, Eggs, Caterpillar, Cocoon, 
and Male and Female Moths onthe mulberry . . . . . ~~. + 154 
The Locust after its kind. 
A professor of the culinary art, anticipating the time when Patés de Sauterelles 
will be considered as great a luxury among the Epicures of our own 
country, as the Locust is in the present day among certain inhabitants 
of Syria, Arabia, Persia, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Barbary . . . . . 171 
11. ON APHIDES. 
On the rose-buds are numerous Aphides, 4. Rosa, of the natural size ; in the 
foreground are individuals of the same, winged and wingless, magnified. 
In the midst of some small Aphides on a leaf is the leach-like grub of a 
Sceva Pyrastri, thinning their numbers, and to the right is a winged 
Fly, the mature condition of the same. Another species of the genus, 
Sceva balteata, is seen above in different positions on the wing. 
To the left on a branch of elder, are individuals of the Elder Aphis, 
A. Sambucaria, beneath which is a magnified representation of the same _ 
attended by a Brown Ant, Formica brunnea, procuring a supply of 
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The Larva wolf in the Aphis flock. 
The part of a wolf in sheep’s clothing performed by the larva of a Lace-wing 
Fly, Chrysopa perla, as it makes havoe among a flock of wool-coated 
Apple Aphides, Eriosoma lanigerum, under cover of their empty skins . 189 
12, INSECT SENSES. 
In the centre is the large green Caterpillar of a Moth, feeding on rose petals ; 
