The Cambridge Manuals of Science and
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THE LIFE-STORY OF INSECTS



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[Illustration: _Frontispiece._ Transformation of a Gnat (_Culex_).
Magnified 5 times.
A. Larva. (The head is directed downwards and the tail-siphon with
spiracle points upwards to the surface of the water.)