26 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



body together and keep it from sagging down into 

 a helpless lump like a bag of meal. 



By referring to the diagram (Fig. 12) the 

 reader will also see that the insects have six legs 

 instead of four. We have four legs, our front or 

 fore-legs we call arms, the hind ones we call our 

 legs. But the fly (Fig. 9) and the beetle (Figs. 11 

 and 12) and all other such creatm-es not only have 



legs and arms like a human 

 being but they also have a 

 middle pair of legs. 



In the illustrations ( Figs. 

 9, 10 and 11) are shown 

 the head, arms and chest 

 of a man, also of a com- 

 mon house-fly (Fig. 9) and 

 just below the man that 

 of a spotted yellow grape-vine beetle (Fig. 11). 

 Roughly speaking, there is some resemblance 

 between the three — each has a head, a body and 

 front legs or arms. The head of the fly and 

 the head of the man are separated from the chest 

 by a more or less slender neck, but the beetle's 

 head is jammed into its chest. Following these 

 three diagrams is one of another beetle (Fig. 12) 



