Comparing a Beetle with a Boy 



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the scientific name of which is Harpalus cahgino- 

 sus — pardon the big name, I did not intend to use it 

 — but the name has nothing to do with the diagram, 

 which shows the front side of the beetle, that is, 

 what would be the front side of the beetle if the 

 latter walked on its hind legs like a man ; in reality 

 it is the under side of the beetle. In the diagram 

 (Fig. 12) I have shown by 

 dotted lines the parts which 

 do not resemble the man, 

 that is, the extra pair of legs 

 and its belly, which it carries on 

 its back, and in the diagram of 

 the man (Fig. 14) is shown, 

 with dotted lines, the outside 

 covering of the bones of the legs 

 and arms, for to make the man 

 like the beetle w^e must strip off the outside covering 

 of muscles from the bones and put muscles and 

 blood-vessels and nerves inside of them. 



Besides the diagram of the man (Fig. 14) is 

 the rough chart showing the muscles on a man's 

 leg, also an insect's leg split in half so that one 

 may see the muscles on the inside of an insect's 

 leg (Fig. 13). 



