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INSECT LIFE. 



9. Pin any other winged insects you have that 

 are large enough to be pinned, remembering that 

 except in case of beetles the insects 

 should be pinned through the 

 middle of the thorax. 



10. If there remain some in- 

 sects that are too small to be 

 pinned, they should be mounted 

 on cardboard points, as described 

 on page 298. 



11. Count the legs on each 

 Fig. 10. . . ?, . /T 



specimen in your collection. (It 



is supposed that you have only winged specimens.) 

 How many legs do winged insects have ? 



The shrilling locust slowly sheathes 



His dagger voice, and creeps away 

 Beneath the brooding leaves where breathes 



The zephyr of the dying day : 

 One naked star has waded through 

 The purple shallows of the night. 

 And faltering as falls the dew 

 It drips its misty light. 

 O'er garden blooms, 

 On tides of musk. 

 The beetle booms adown the glooms 

 And bumps along the dusk. 



The katydid is rasping at 



The silence from the tangled broom : 

 On drunken wings the flitting bat 



Goes staggering athwart the gloom : 

 The toadstool bulges through the weeds ; 



And lavishly to left and right 

 The fireflies, like golden seeds. 



Are sown about the night. 



