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WET FOREST COMMUNITIES 



REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TAMARACK SWAMP COMMUNITY 



FIG. 144. View in the dense vegetation of the tamarack swamp. 



FIG. 145. Female orb-weaver (Epeira gigas); about natural size. 



FIG. 146. The brindled locust (Melanoplus punctulatus); natural size. 



FIG. 147. An earwig (Apterygida aculeata); natural size. 



FIG. 148. An engraver beetle destroyer (Cleridae, Thanasimus dubius) ; 3 times 

 natural size (from Blatchley after Wolcott) . 



FIG. 149. The bark of the tamarack, showing the work of the engraver beetle 

 (Polygraphus rufipennis). 



FIGS. 150, 1500. Pickering's tree-frog (Hyla pickeringii); about two-thirds 

 natural size (after Fowler). 



