Evenings at the microscope : or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life (1884)
Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 155
e investing hairsis very interesting; for they are seen to be flat filamentsof the yellow chitine, very much dilated at their bases, U2 EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE. and set side by side in regular whorls, the bottom edgesof which form the rings of which the tongue is composed.The tip is probably a… … JAWS OF BEE. mouth of the Beetle, except the maxillary palpi; andthese, very small indeed, but quite distinct, you may seeon the outer edge of the maxillw, just below the pointwhere their outline begins to swell into its graceful curve.The cylindrical tongue is capable of considerable ex- INSECTS :…
Zoology · Microscopy
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