for only about half their length. 



But as in the flea among flies, 



here we find myriads of true bugs 



without a vestige of wings, and 



others, like the cicada, with ample 



wings as clear and 



free from opacity as 



those of a fly. It 



would take more 



space than I have 



at disposal to tell 



precisely what 



a bug really 



is entomologi- 



cally, such a 



diversity of 



forms is 

 presented 

 in the fam- 

 ily. But the suck- 

 ing beak, and the 

 fact that the average bug 

 is born a bug from the 

 egg, instead of going through the 

 usual transformation of larva, chry- 

 salis, and imago, will have to suffice us 



