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Kever growing thicker outwards ; 

 Its eyes veiy often golden, 

 And its body bright green coloured : 

 Lovely looking, but illsmelling. 



After Lacewinged Flies, or Lace Wings. 

 Comes a tribe that's half aquatic, 

 Lan^ae swimming in the water, 

 And the perfect insects flying 

 Over pond and over river. 

 Now, at early dawn, we find them 

 Sleeping on the broadleaved buUi'ush ; 

 Often, falling in the water. 

 They become the prey of fishes. 

 These we call Coeydalina. 

 All the winged or perfect insects 

 Have a large, distinct prothorax. 

 Sometimes square, sometimes cylindiic. 

 Never narrow as in Lace AVings ; 

 Feelers long and manyjointed, 

 Mostly tapering to the summit. 



Scoi-pionflies, or Panorpina, 

 Seem to foUow next in order. 

 Larva very Uttle noted ; 

 But a certain learned doctor 

 Found one in decaying timber, 

 Fed it a long time on apple. 

 Kept it till it was a pupa. 

 And at last a brisk imago. 



