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Excerpt from A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation
The word Insect, which, in the Latin language, from whence it was derived, means cut into or notched, was designed to express one of the chief characters of this group of animals, whose body is marked by several cross lines or incisions. The parts between these cross-lines are called segments, or rings, and Consist of a number of jointed pieces, more or less movable oii each other.
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