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INSECT MOVEMENTS. 



'" A thousand ways, 



I'pward and downward, thwarting and convolved, 

 The quivering nations sport." 



Ix their endless variety of movement, the Insect races re- 

 semble, equal, and in many cases surpass, nearly every other 

 animated tribe of earth, air, and water. They walk, with the 

 quadruped; fly, with the bird; crawl, with the reptile ; swim, 

 with the fish ; do all, in short, but march erect, like the man 

 and the monkey ; while many of them are endowed with motive 



