Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 162
lens, refracting the light around itsedges in a bright ring ; and the large shadowswere shadows not of the feet, but of the curvingwater-hollows. The feet were not, then, nec-essarily of the same shape as the shadows.Leaving the shadows for the moment, I nowexamined more attentively the insect… … ..a THE WATER-BUG. as may be seen in Fig. 2, which was drawnfrom a similar bug, although I was not able tocatch one of the identical bugs I am describing.This is certainly a picture of a very near rela-tive, however, if not of a brother, and serves ourpurpose sufficiently well. The insect rests…
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