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WET FOREST COMMUNITIES 



Representatives of the Tamarack Swamp Community 



Fig. 144. — View in the dense vegetation of the tamarack swamp. 



Fig. 145. — Female orb-weaver (Epeira gigas) ; about natural size. 



Fig. 146. — The brindled locust (Melanoplns punctulatiis) ; natural size. 



Fig. 147. — An earwig (A pterygida aculeata); natural size. 



Fig. 148. — An engraver beetle destroyer (Cleridae, Thanasimus dubius) ; 3 times 

 natural size (from Blatchley after Wolcott). 



Fig. 149. — The bark of the tamarack, showing the work of the engraver beetle 

 (Polygraphias rnfipennis) . 



Figs. 150, 150a. — Pickering's tree-frog (Hyla pickeringii); about two-thirds 

 natural size (after Fowler). 



