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flf)ating e^j^ opens downward into the water, and 

 the yonn<4 nioscjuito slides off with a jerk of the 

 tail into its native marshes. Almost everybody 

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

 be familiar with these little brown darting larvre, 



NO. 3. — TIIK KCCS llAICHINr.. AND YnrNT. MOSlJl' I I OF.S KSCAPINC. 



which occur abundantlv 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 then'i more closely you will see that 

 they are rather delicately green, and often mottled. 

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



