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bug, makes the salt water its home; the Halobates, another 

 hemipterous insect, faces the tranquil mirror of the tropical 

 seas as leisurely as our water-bugs sport on the glassy surface 

 of our ponds, and the Gyrinus marinus, a beetle belonging 

 to the family of the whirligigs, ambitiously seeks a wide 

 expanse, and may be seen curvetting about on the surface 

 of the sea, and darting down every now and then to seize its 

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StenopuB hispidus 



