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to a mosquito ; but it is not necessary to its existence : 

 in fact, the vast majority of mosquitoes never know what 

 the taste of blood is." 

 "Indeed!" 



" In all parts of the world there must be low-lying 

 tracts of countries literally swarming with mosquitoes, 

 where animals do not exist, or are extremely rare. Speak- 

 ing of their blood-thirsty habit, a clever naturalist has 

 suggested in respect to the mosquitoes of many distric ts 

 of South America that perhaps only one in a hundred 

 millions of mosquitoes can ever taste blood." 



" How interesting." 



"Why are these beautiful butterflies placed near th e 

 detestable blood-sucking mosquitoes ?" 



" Because they are near relations." 



"Butterflies, near relations of mosquitoes ! What 

 next !!" 



" I assure you they are. You can satisfy yourself 

 whether it is so or not. Just look at these enlarged pict- 

 ures and the dissection of the several parts of butterflies 

 and mosquitoes, and prepare a tabular statement of the 

 parts you see, in your note-book under the following 

 heading, and say if I am right." 



BUTTERFLIES. MOSQUITOES AND FLEAS. 



I. Body divided into three I. Body divide^ into three 



regions. regions. 



(a) Head or front region. (a) Head or front region. 



(<5) Middle or chest region. (b) Middle or chest region. 



{c) Belly or back region. (c) Belly or back region. 



