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and how toothsome, at least to some of you, they are, 

 As for the mosquito, who among us can declare that 

 he has never been a victim to its bite ? In fact, you 

 have known these things from your childhood, and yet, 

 (I dare say you feel ashamed at your apathy), you never 

 cared to enquire about them. But I am digressing. 

 We have now studied the structures of some of these 

 creatures and formed some idea of their position in 

 nature, and the relation they stand in to one another. 

 In short we have got some sort of a clue to their classi- 

 fication which may be roughly expressed as follows : 



Class I. Prawns, crabs, and other animals 

 like them, have two pairs of feelers ; more 

 than eight limbs ; and the body enclosed in a 

 shell or crust ; and are therefore called 

 crustaceans. There are other characteristics, 

 but for our purpose these will be enough. 



Class II. Spiders, and Scorpions, and ani- 

 mals like them have eight legs but no 

 feelers. 



Class III. Centipedes, and millepedes, 

 are animals with numerous legs and one 

 pair of feelers. 



Class IV. Butterflies, mosquitoes, cock- 

 roaches, grasshoppers, houseflies &c., be- 

 long to this class. They are called insects > 

 and all of them have one pair of feelers* 

 three pairs of legs, and two pairs, of 

 more or less developed, 



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