Insects and Their Relatives 



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A large cicada, called the singer or old witch, was 

 much like the jar-flies at home. A little red lady- 

 bird and a white grubworm looked ever so familiar, 

 while hundreds of other beetles were new. 



Fig. 60. The praying mantis, or pimento horse. 



Spiders 



Henry noticed that spiders had eight legs while 

 the true insects had onlv six. He took much more 



