86 THE HAUNTS OF LIFE 



by trying every niche of opportunity. It is the 

 same with the Storm Petrel ; it has survived 

 by its originality. 



OPEN-SEA INSECTS 



A fine example of what we may call the 

 adventurousness or insurgence of life is to be 



FIG. 5. SEA-SKIMMER, HALOBATES. 

 An Insect that runs about on the Open Sea. 



found in the family of sea-skimmers (Halo- 

 batidse), wingless insects that run along the 

 surface of the water, often a hundred .miles 

 from land. They are closely related to the 



