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for only about half their length. 
But as in the flea among flies, 
here we find myriads of true bugs 
without a vestige of wings, and 
others, like the cicada, with ample 
wings as clear and 
free from opacity as 
those of a fly. It 
would take more 
space than I have 
at disposal to tell 
precisely what 
a bug really 
is entomologi- 
cally, such a 
diversity of 
forms is 
presented 
in the fam- 
ily. But the suck- 
ing beak, and the 
fact that the average bug 
is born a bug from the 
egg, instead of going through the' 
usual transformation of larva, chry- 
salis, and imago, will have to suffice us 
