INSECT INTRUDERS. 



intercourse and amenities, one turns one's 

 face with relief to the fastness of the 

 jungle. 



Here we find Insect Life in its purest 

 untrammelled freedom. If we wish to 

 meet those curiosities and freaks which 

 abound in the Insect World, it is to 

 jungle bug life that we must turn. In the 

 jungles we come at once face to face with 

 some of the most marvellous creatures 

 Nature has to show ; for no other class of 

 the Animal Kingdom includes even a 

 tithe of the weird forms of life which 

 can be counted amongst our friends the 

 Bug Tribe of the Jungles. 



Take the types depicted here ! Surely 

 relics of a prehistoric age when the 

 Icthyosaurian swam in slimy tenebrian 

 pools and the Pterosaur, flapping 

 heavily through giant carboniferous 

 forests, carried with him the secret of 

 aerial flight that still unsolved problem 

 of the acutest intelligencies of our much- 

 vaunted present-day civilization ! 

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