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Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



There is the squash-bug (Fig. 278), and his near 

 relative, the stink-bug (Fig. 279), also the com- 

 ical little toad bug (Fig. 280). We have omitted 

 many portraits of the marsh treaders and of the 



THE ASSASSIN BUG 



notorious bed-bug family, but the less-known as- 

 sassin bug you will find in Fig. 281. 



The assassin belongs in the kissing-bug family. 

 Some years ago there was a great ado in the news- 

 papers about the kissing-bugs stinging people on 



