Note 19 — Chapter i · THE OLD WEEVILS
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Where are the Hydrophilus,19 the Gyrinus,20 the Dytiscus,21 all inhabitants of the water? These lacustrians had every chance of being handed down to us as mummies between two sheets of marl. If there were any in those days, they used to live in the lake, whose mud would have preserved these horn-clad insects even more effectually than the little fishes and more especially the Fly. Well, of these aquatic Beetles there is no trace either.