SOME AQUATIC WORMS, ETC. 



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The eggs are common on sticks, floating chips, or 

 other objects in the water, or even in freely floating 

 masses. They are deposited in an immense amount 

 of ielly, huge in bulk when compared with the size of 

 the insect, the eggs appearing to the naked eye as dis- 

 tinct but minute, often brownish, specks, arranged in 

 beautifully regular rows. 



^^S- 133. — Chir6noraus larva. 



It is always interesting as well as important for the 

 collector to take home all the little jelly-like egg 

 masses which he may find attached to submerged ob- 

 jects. If placed in a watch-glass or in an "individ- 



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