CHAPTER VIII. 



ROADSIDE LIFE. 



■*OR the careful collector of insects, a 

 country roadside is always a fruitful 

 field. Here live all the insects de- 

 scribed in the preceding- chapters, for 

 there are roadside ponds, brooks, or- 

 chards, and forests, as well as meadows. 

 But this chapter is devoted to a few 

 of the more prominent insects that live in grassy 

 places, or on common roadside weeds and shrubs, or 

 that lurk under stones, or that mine in roadside 

 paths and clifls. 



As in the preceding chapter, the principal object 

 here is to point out subjects for study. The students 

 that have carefully carried out the work indicated in 



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