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Excerpt from The Royal Natural History, Vol. 6
Speaking in a general way, insects may be said to be terrestrial animals, since all the species are fitted more or less completely for atmospheric respiration and for progression on the land; many of them in addition are furnished with wings, which propel them through the air with amazing velocity. In many of the orders, how ever, as, for instance, in the beetles and bugs, there are species that have adopted an aquatic mode of life and spend their days in fresh-water ponds and streams in various quarters of the globe. Others again, like some of the gnats and dragon ?ies, live in fresh-water during the larval stages of their existence, but quit it on attaining maturity. Insects, too, are sometimes found on the coast beneath stones and seaweed at low water, but there is only one species of insect that can strictly be called marine; this is a bug (halobates) sometimes met with in numbers on the surface of the ocean thousands of miles from land.
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