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he manages to inundate himself, which has all 

 been withdrawn from the stem upon which he 

 has fastened himself, and finally exuded from the 

 pores of his body. 



This is the spume-bearer, Aprophora,m his first 

 or larval estate, which continues for a few weeks 

 only. Erelong he will graduate from these igno- 

 minious surroundings, and we shall see quite an- 

 other sort of creature — an agile, pretty atom, one 

 of which I have indicated in flight, its upper 

 wings being often brilliantly colored, and re- 

 enforced by a pair of hind feet which emulate 

 those of the flea in their powers of jumping, 

 which agility has won the insect the popular 

 name of " froghopper." They abound in the late 

 summer meadow, and hundreds of them may be 

 captured by a few sweeps of a butterfly-net among 

 the grass. 



My other remaining claimant for notice, shown 

 upon the plant at the right margin of page 60, is 

 a modest and inconspicuous individual, and might 

 readily escape attention, save that a more intent 

 observer might possibly wonder at the queer lit- 

 tle tubular pinkish blossoms upon the plant — a 

 rush — while a keen-eyed botanist would instantly 

 challenge the right of 2. j uncus to such a tubular 

 blossom at all, especially at seed-time, and thus, 



