FLASHLIGHTS ON NATURE 



floating egg opens downward into the water, and 

 the young mosquito slides off with a jerk of the 

 tail into its native marshes. Almost everybody 

 who has travelled in Asia, Africa, or America, must 

 be familiar with these little brown darting larvae, 



NO. 3. THE EGGS HATCHING, AND YOUNG MOSQUITOES ESCAPING. 



which occur abundantly in the soft water in jugs 

 and wash-hand basins. Brown, I say roughly, 

 because they look so at a casual glance ; but if 

 you examine them more closely you will see that 

 they are rather delicately green, and often mottled. 

 It is not easy to catch them, however, so quickly 



