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the greatest ease The apparatus with which it extracts the 

 blood of its victims is very curious, and forms a beautiful object 

 under a microscope of low power. Its leap is tremendous in 

 proportion to its size. This property it enjoys in common with 

 many other insects, among which 'the Common Grasshopper, 

 the Frog-hopper, and the Halticas, or Turnip-flies are conspicu- 

 ous. In all these insects the hinder pair of legs are very long 

 and powerful. 



I am here most reluctantly compelled to close this little work. 

 Most willingly would I have entered into a sketch of the re- 

 maining classes. These, however, are so numerous, and their 

 habits are so different from those of the creatures w r hom we 

 have already examined, that even a very slight description 

 would consume too much space and time* 



Here, then, I take my leave of the reader, with a sincere 

 hope that the perusal of this little work will not only have 

 proved interesting, but will a^o have given him -some insight 

 into the beautiful order of the animated world. 



