Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 75
the point of a fine needle. Each hair termi-nates in an arrow-shaped point; just below it isa shield-shaped segment, and then follow fromtwenty to forty other segments, cup-shaped, andfitting into one another, like the pretty lilac-blossoms when you make them into chains. … anchor and plate, much magnified. When another insect, an ant, for instance,attacks this wonderful larva (and a very cou-rageous ant it would have to be to besiege this cast skins you mayhandle it with impuni-ty, because the skin ofthe finger is thick; butdraw it across your lipand you experience…
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