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THE LIFE OF AN INSECT. 



One is a respectable-looking old gentleman's face, 

 with his hair brushed up very primly off his fore- 



PupcB after Goedart. 



head. Another resembles a mermaid, for it has 

 the head of a lady, and something like a cap, but its 

 tail is more like that of a fish. The others are 

 quite caricatures. It is the introduction of a 

 dot, to represent the eye, which gives the resem- 

 blance to the face in these figures ; without it they 

 are by no means strikingly like the face. Madame 

 Merian has favoured us also with some very curious 



