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The Boys' and Girls' Pliny

Note 188 — Chapter II · WHETHER INSECTS BREATHE, AND WHETHER THEY HAVE BLOOD.

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They respire by orifices in the sides of the body, known to naturalists as stigmata. The whole body, Cuvier says, forms in a measure, a system of lungs.

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