The Life of the Grasshopper
The Life of the Grasshopper
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190 Digitized by VjOOQIC CHAPTER X THE EMPUSA THE sea, life's first foster-mother, still preserves in her depths many of those singular and incongruous shapes which were the earliest attempts of the animal kingdom; the land, less fruitful, but with more ca- pacity for progress, has almost wholly lost the strange forms of other days. The few that remain belong especially to the series of primitive insects, insects exceedingly limited in their industrial powers and subject to very summary metamor...phoses, if to any at all.
In my district, in the front rank of those entomological anomalies which remind us of the denizens of the old coal-forests, stand the Mantidae, including the Praying Mantis, so curious in habits and structure. Here also is the Empusa (E. pauper at a, Latr.), the subject of this chapter.
Her larva is certainly the strangest crea- ture among the terrestrial fauna of Pro- 191 Digitized by VjOOQIC The Life of the Grasshopper vence : a slim, swaying thing of so fantastic an appearance that uninitiated fingers dare not lay hold of it.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
190 Digitized by VjOOQIC CHAPTER X THE EMPUSA THE sea, life's first foster-mother, still preserves in her depths many of those singular and incongruous shapes which were the earliest attempts of the animal kingdom; the land, less fruitful, but with more ca- pacity for progress, has almost wholly lost the strange forms of other days. The few that remain belong especially to the series of primitive insects, insects exceedingly limited in their industrial powers and subject to very summary metamor...phoses, if to any at all.
In my district, in the front rank of those entomological anomalies which remind us of the denizens of the old coal-forests, stand the Mantidae, including the Praying Mantis, so curious in habits and structure. Here also is the Empusa (E. pauper at a, Latr.), the subject of this chapter.
Her larva is certainly the strangest crea- ture among the terrestrial fauna of Pro- 191 Digitized by VjOOQIC The Life of the Grasshopper vence : a slim, swaying thing of so fantastic an appearance that uninitiated fingers dare not lay hold of it.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Teixeira De Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921, Tr to read onlineMoreLess
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