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INSECTS HEMPITERA DIAGRAM 6 



various kinds of cabbage. They 



by them, 

 plant. 



are found in abundance in 

 kitchen gardens, 

 which they fre- 

 quently devas- 

 tate. But it is 

 enough to kill 

 them and to keep 

 them away to 

 place branches of 

 flowering broom 

 on the plants 

 Cabbage Butterfly. which are infested 



The insects cannot bear the neighbourhood of this 



OKDEft HEMIPTEEA. 



Insects of the order Hemiptera have a straight proboscis 

 which they can easily bury in hard sub stances j they have four 

 wings, which appear at the first glance to be alike ; but when 

 we examine them more closely, we perceive that the fore-wings 

 are only partly similar to the hind wings ; another part, eith er 

 the edge, or a portion near the base is horny like the elytra of 

 beetles. Hemiptera undergo only an incomplete metamorphosis ; 

 the larva already greatly resembles the perfect insect, and the 

 pupa still more. 



The cicada is a large insect which is found in the New Forest. 

 It is mute ; but most of the foreign species are celebrated for 

 the loud chirping of the males. The organs, of song in the 

 cicada, are situated under the abdomen, or level -with the first 

 segments. Two plates or two scales are noticed covering a small 



