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details. Oftentimes the smaller the organism the 

 greater is its beauty. Many of Nature's lowest 

 creations, smaller by some thousands of times than 

 these insects' eggs we have glanced at, reveal, 

 under high magnifying powers, wonders that 

 eclipse in beauty and elegance of workmanship 



Fig. 103. The Small Copper Butterfly deposits eggs of this 

 description, x 30 diameters 



anything man can produce. We have caught a 

 glimpse of these in the lower forms of plant life. 

 The tiny seeds of garden flowers and weeds 

 almost invariably reveal on their outer surface, 

 when magnified, wonderfully diversified sculptur- 

 ing and engraving ; and it is not, perhaps, im- 

 possible that these often similarly coloured and 

 engraved eggs of various insects gain a measure 

 of protection from such enemies as ichneumons 



