To the bug 

 student these features are 

 very significant, and he is 

 not long in placing the 

 creature among his proper kin- 

 dred. He has a sucking beak, 

 which connects him with the 

 tribe of bugs, and other features 

 ally him to the cicada, a humble 

 though accomplished relative of 

 the buzzing harvest-fly or hornet. He dwells in 

 cool contentment here in his aerated bath, but he 

 has not thus put himself to soak as the end and aim 

 of his existence. Erelong he will graduate from 

 these moist surroundings, and we shall see quite 

 another sort of being, whom we would not dare to 

 affront by the mere mention of such an ignomini- 



