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pearance of lively scorpion-bugs. One might well 

 think a company of them to be a sight of the 

 " nightmare and her ninefold." However, I think 

 that most of their threatening actions are merely 

 expressions of fright, they being as anxious to 

 escape as most people are to let them go. But 

 this variety, the length of which is only about 

 thirteen sixteenths of an inch and the width six 

 or seven sixteenths in the broadest part of the 

 back, becomes insignificant when one thinks of its 



Belostoma grandis. 



near Brazilian relative, Belostoma grandis, a full- 

 grown specimen of which is about five inches 

 long, the wings when spread measuring from tip 

 to tip more than seven inches. Methinks it 

 might require some courage to explore a Brazil- 



