Insect miscellanies / [by James Rennie].

  • James Rennie
Date:
1831
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Credit: Insect miscellanies / [by James Rennie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    glass, even when the body hangs downwards and it is also finely adapted, both as a brush and as a comb, for cleaning the body and wings t; but it is no less fitted for being an organ of touch, from its softness and flexibility. Amongst the locusts (Lo- custidce)y however, this structure is more conspicuous from the greater size of the insects, the terminal por- tion of the foot being not only furnished with a move- able claw, but with two soft round palrtis, if we may call them so, which must greatly assist in feeling the nature of the surface over which the insect walks. Even in insects of smaller size, as the musk beetle (Ceramhyx odoratuSy De Geer), and the catch-weed b a a Musk beetle (^Ceramhyx odaratux). h Catch-weed beetle {Jlman'ha tenehricosa). * See Insect Transformations, p. 390-1. It is right to mention that a paper has been recently read at the Linnajan Society, in which tile principle of suction, by w'hich the fly is said to hold on against gravity, is disproved. See Taylor’s Philosophical Magazine. f J. Rennie, in Journal of Royal Institution, for Oct. 1830.
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