Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 98
high. Groups of these eggs are very pretty, look-ing like a tiny forest of white stems bearing on their sum- mits round glistening fruit. When the first of the broodhatches, he scrambles down as best he can from his egg-perch to the surface of the leaf, and runs off, quite uncon-scious that tlie… … THE LACE-LIKE WING. neighbor brought to me a specimen of lace-winged fly that he called a curious small grass-hopper with beautiful witigs. It is nt a grass-hopper, but does a little resemble one. I took an
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