102 Lessons in Zoology. 



The bug has wing-covers half horny and crossing on 

 the back. It has a small, pointed head. Its mouth- 

 parts are a sucking- tube and two pairs of needles. 



This oompsffison is SDffioient to enable one always to dlstingnisb 

 these two orders of inaecta. If, however, we have observed them 

 in all stages of growth, we can add the very important difference 

 that while the jonng bag resembles its parent in a general way and 

 the active pnpa is still more like it, both living on sqnash-vines, 

 the larva of the Jnne beetle is worm-like and Uvea in the ground, 

 and the pnpa is qniet in a cocoon. 



