Note 3 — Chapter II · THE MASKED BUG
Bernard Miall translation
I have confronted the Reduvius with a big-jawed Decticus, a Platycleis3 five or six times the size of his executioner. Next day the colossus was sucked dry by the dwarf as quickly as a Fly would have been. A terrible stab had paralysed him. Where was the blow delivered and how did it take effect?