INSECT INTRUDERS. 



layman from time immemorial. He has 

 also been collected, described and named 

 by generations on generations of babes, 

 boys, youths and men ; and we may 

 include many of the gentler sex, to whom 

 the seductiveness of the attractive beauty 

 has proved sufficient to overcome the 

 natural instinctive dread for the ' nasty 

 insect-' 



But that beauty it is not for pen of 

 ours to describe. 



No ! With a sigh we step aside from 

 the popular and attractive paths of our 

 predecessors to turn into that rocky 

 uphill one which treats of those forms 

 of life which one so often hears alluded 

 to as 



' Get out you little beast.' * Nasty 

 horrid thing.' * He's there, dear, I 

 know he'll run up my leg !! ' 



No ! In these few sketches of some of 

 the commoner forms of Insect Life one 

 finds intruding into our Indian homes 

 in this Land of Exile we do not propose 



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