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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 7 — BOOK XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS.

John Bostock translation

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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