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BOOK OF MONSTERS
BY
DAVID AND MARIAN FAIRCHILD
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF A FEW OF THE
INHABITANTS OF WOODLAND AND MEADOW
WASHINGTON
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
1914
Copyrighted by
National Geographic Society
1914
CONTENTS
| I. | THE SPIDER WORLD. |
| II. | THE INSECT WORLD. |
| Straight-Winged Insects (Orthoptera). Order of the Bugs (Hemiptera). The Beetles (Coleoptera). Two-Winged Insects (Diptera). Feathered Insects (Lepidoptera). Nerve-Winged Insects (Neuroptera). The Stinging Insects (Hymenoptera). | |
| III. | THE WORLD OF MYRIAPODS AND A SINGLE LAND CRUSTACEAN. |
BOOK OF MONSTERS
The pictures in this book are portraits of creatures which are as much thereal inhabitants of the world as we are, and have all the rights ofownership that we have, but, because their own struggle for existence sooften crosses ours, many of them are our enemies. Indeed, man’s own realstruggle for the supremacy of the world is his struggle to control thesetiny monsters.
The plague of the middle ages, which spread like some mysterioussupernatural curse over Europe and carried off millions of people, theyellow fever that has haunted the coasts of South America, the malariawhich has strewn the tropics of the world with millions of graves, havebeen caused by the activ