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parent and the parent is therefore called viviparous. 

 She gives birth to about three hundred babies at a 

 time, not counting those which get away unob- 

 served. Inasmuch as neither the old lady nor the 

 old gentleman Stylops have to support their chil- 

 dren, they can afford to have big families. 



In hunting for the female Stylops you must 

 examine the bodies of bees, where you will some- 

 times find the head of the fat criminal sticking out 

 from between the abdomen plates or the belly rings 

 of the bee. 



The male Stylops looks like Mr. Pinheadus 

 in the comic sheets of the newspaper and he is a 

 pinhead among the beetles. He has wings and an 



