194 WET FOREST COMMUNITIES 
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TAMARACK SwAMP COMMUNITY 
Fic. 144.—View in the dense vegetation of the tamarack swamp. 
Fic. 145.—Female orb-weaver (Epeira gigas); about natural size. 
Fic. 146.—The brindled locust (Melanoplus punctulatus); natural size. 
Fic. 147.—An earwig (A plerygida aculeata); natural size. 
Fic. 148.—An engraver beetle destroyer (Cleridae, Thanasimus dubius); 3 times 
natural size (from Blatchley after Wolcott). 
Fic. 149.—The bark of the tamarack, showing the work of the engraver beetle 
(Polygraphus rufipennis). 
Fics. rso0, 150a.—Pickering’s tree-frog (Hyla pickeringii); about two-thirds 
natural size (after Fowler). 
