Common objects of the microscope [electronic resource] (1900)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, West, Tuffen, ill, Bousfield, E. C. (Edward Collins), b. 1855 · London : G. Routledge & Sons · leaf 143
of the curious battledore scales of the same insect, with itsrows of distinct dottings. Fig. 14 is one of .theprettily tufted scales of the orange-tip butterfly,and Fig. 8 is the splendid branched scale of thedeaths-head moth. Fig. 19 shows a scale of thesugar-runner (Lepisma saccharina), a little… … VII. SCALES 113 through them like oil; but by holding a cover-glassin a pair of forceps, and pressing it upon one ofthe little creatures, a number of the scales may becaused to adhere to it, and these should be mounteddry for examination. The gnats also possess verypretty scales, with the ribs…
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