Those Hokrid Kakwkjs 



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winj^-tip, wiiich will not close of its own iucvl' 

 motion. Tiicn, :is you can observe in No. 13, 

 she rapidly clips the pincers toi^ether, thus tuckin<4 

 in the last bit of the winj^ much as a hand mi^^ht 

 do it. After that, she slraij^htens her body a^ain, 

 as in No. 14, 

 and is ready 

 to replace the 

 folded wings be- 

 ll ind the hard 

 wing-covers. Of 

 course, all this 

 process, which 

 we have repre- 

 sented here in 

 detail in its vari- 

 ous stages, only 

 occupies in life 

 a few brief se- 

 conds ; so per- 

 fect and so au- 

 tomatic is the 

 mechanism that 

 the earwig man- 

 ages it all as readily as a lady closes up her fan 

 and reopens it. 



In No. 15, our earwig is shown in the act of 

 replacing the folded wings ovei- the abdomen ; 

 while the hard, horny wing-case is beginning to 

 cover them. In No. 16 she has folded them quite 

 back, but has lifted the wing-cases again, as if to 

 Hy off once more ; this illustration exhibits the 



NO. 8. — A SIXONH LA IKK. 



