HEMIPTERA. 



CHARACTERISTICS. 



1. Body usually softer than the beetles'. 



2. Wings, four, but the front pair usually thin and soft, 

 and opaque only part way to the tip. 



3. Wings overlapping on the back. 



4. Mouth parts prolonged into a sucking beak which 

 projects from the front of the head or is folded back 

 on the breast under the body. 



5. Wings absent in some sorts, but the mouth parts 



are still modified into the beak. 



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