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REGREATIONS^MICROSCOPE 



A Hint and a Suggestion. 



BY CLEMENT B. DAVIS, NEW YORK CITY. 



To that enviable mortal, the micros- 

 copist, everything is "fish that comes 

 to his net." The seeds of the common 



work. A volume might be written on 

 their surprising mechanisms alone — 

 the labrum or underlip, for instance, 

 of the larva of the dragon fly. In re- 

 pose this appendage appears as a sim- 



wee 



ds and vegetables furnish endless pie mask covering the greater part of 



THE AUDITORY HAIRS OF A MOSQUITO. 



surprises. The pappus of the flying the face, but let some helpless little 



seeds hold secrets that few of us sus 

 pect, while the exhaustless store of 

 beautiful forms, color combinations 

 and mechanisms among the insects 

 alone would furnish material for a life 



fish, worm or tadpole wriggle too close 

 and that disguise flies out and back 

 like the click of a camera shutter. That 

 mask is no longer the simple face cov- 

 ering it seemed to be, but it becomes 



