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Dim and desolate to look at. 

 Let us glance at the imago : 

 It lias moderate antennae, 

 Whicli are six or sevenjointed ; 

 Wings alike and four in number, 

 Narrow, long, unfolded, rayless ; 

 Body long and rather pointed ; 

 Feet prehensile and twojointed. 



Next the Ticklers, the Psocina 

 Are the least, and most abundant ; 

 Little, active imps of summer ; 

 Every tree and every hedgerow 

 Seems to swarm with these Psocina, 

 Larva, pupa and imago, 

 Winged and wingless all together. 

 On the trunks of these old elm trees, 

 Tall and miserably shrouded, 

 Shorn at once of use and beauty, 

 We shall find, in cracks and crannies 

 Of the barks so gnarled and knotted, 

 Numbers of these small Psocina, 

 Running like a host of spiders, 

 Looking like a host of plantlice. 

 But they run a great deal faster. 

 Wlien with wings these mites are furnished. 

 Then the hind wings are the smaller. 

 And are never folded lengthwise ; 

 Their eyes small, and round, and distant ; 



