United States or Kyrgyzstan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Cousin Benedict was occupied in studying with a magnifying glass an articulate which he had at last found on board a simple orthopter, whose head disappeared under the prothorax; an insect with flat elytrums, with round abdomen, with rather long wings, which belonged to the family of the roaches, and to the species of American cockroaches.
To have on the end of his nose a tuberculous manticore, with large elytrums an insect of the cicendeletes tribe a very rare specimen in collections one that seems peculiar to those southern parts of Africa, and yet not utter a cry of admiration; that is beyond human strength.
He was absorbed in admiration of the elegant insect that was leading him on. But the latter, doubtless, had enough of this long walk. Its elytrums turned aside, its wings spread out. Cousin Benedict felt the danger, and, with his curved hand, he was going to make a provisional prison for the manticore, when f-r-r-r-r! it flew away! What despair! But the manticore could not go far.
Word Of The Day