64 Life and Love. 



Wonderful instruments are furnished it, that it 

 may successfully perpetuate its kind. 



Like its cousin the lobster, the insect, in its 

 imago or perfect state has a body, the 

 latter part of which is composed of 

 rings. There are ten or eleven of these 

 rings, the ones toward the head being 

 very like each other, but toward the 

 tail end there is a marked alteration in 

 'size and form. 



The last three or four segments or rings are 

 usually very much reduced in size, particularly on 

 the under side, thus causing the end of the body to 

 curve in. 



These smaller segments give rise to certain long, 

 slender growths on the under side, ultimately form- 

 ing tubes, capable in some cases of being with- 

 drawn into the body. 



These terminal organs, in some species, are very 

 complicated. 



As in other creatures, the ovaries of the insect 

 lie one on each side of the inner cavity of the body, 

 egg-tubes or oviducts leading from them to the 

 outer world. In the male, sperm-sacs and sperm- 

 ducts take the place of ovaries and oviducts. 



The oviducts and sperm-ducts communicate at 

 their outer opening with the elongated terminal 

 organs, which, in fact, form tunnels through which 

 the eggs and sperm-cells may be safely conducted 

 to any given point. 



