By the same author 



KNOWING INSECTS 

 THROUGH STORIES 



IN this delightful work Mr. Bralliar delicately 

 reveals some of the most surprising truths 

 about insect life in the plainest, simplest language; 

 and in his characteristically attractive way of 

 moulding his material into stories, he fascinates 

 both the child and the adult reader. 



The truly wonderful things the author tells 

 about bees, butterflies, moths, grasshoppers, 

 wasps, ants, flies, and other denizens of the 

 woods and fields fairly astound: The butterfly 

 with the thousand eyes, the worm with its handle 

 and peculiar antecedence, hornets that make 

 paper, the praying mantis that devours her 

 husband, idiosyncrasies of Madam Doodlebug 

 the murderess, marvellous physical power of 

 the caddis fly in moving stones, the nations and 

 kingdoms of ants, insects with air bladders on 

 their feet, giant assassin bugs, fairy acrobats, 

 the danger of mosquitoes and the dreaded 

 housefly. 



While pleasingly simple the book is scien- 

 tifically accurate and forms an easy first course 

 in natural history. With six color plates, eight 

 half tones and text illustrations. 



12mo. Cloth. S23 Pages. $1.75, Net. 



FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers 

 354-360 Fourth Avenue, New York 



