THE SECOND COLLECTING TRIP. 



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O'er slumb'rous blooms, 

 On floods of musk. 

 The beetle booms adown the glooms 

 And bumps along the dusk. 



James Whitcomb Riley.* 



LESSON XII. 



TH5 SECOND COLLECTING TRIP. 



1. Review carefully the directions on page 28. 



2. On this excursion the pupils should collect any 

 true insects — that is, those having only six feet — that 

 they may find ; but the especial object of the excur- 



FlG. II. — Nymph of Melanofilus, 

 first stage. (After Emerton.) 



Fig. 12. — Nymph of Melanoplus^ 

 second stage. (After Emerton.) 



Fig. 13. — Nymph of Melanoplus, FiG. 14. — Nymph of Melanoplus, 



third stage. (After Emerton.) fourth stage. (After Emerton.) 



sion is to get a set of specimens illustrating the 

 growth of either crickets or locusts or bugs. Select 

 whichever of these is most common, and get as com- 



' From Old-fashioned Roses, by permission of the Bowen-Merrill Co. 



