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National Geographic : 1913 May
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Copyright by National Geographic Society, 1913. Photo byDavid Fairchild THE CICADA A close relative of the 17-year locust, this summer lyreman, or cicada, has come to be as much a partof our summer lives astheswallow. The smooth oval knobs at each side of the head are thousand-facet eyes; two of the three lense-shaped eyelets, orocelli, arevisible half way be tween the facet eyes. These ocelli have three lenses in them. The antennae are short bristles extendingatan angle outward from below the facet eyes. The knees are like the knees of a crayfish's legs. The throat is slitted, and altogether it is a weird monster. Its other life below the ground is quite as strange (see page 587)
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