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 163
eadily flow up the capil-lary tubes. The channel throughwhich this fluid is ejected is pro-bably the tongue, which you seeto be permeated by a tube containing a fluid; and thesame channel may afford ingress to the diluted blood. The labium does not enter the wound. If you haveever had the… … LANCETS OF FEMALE GNAT. a, labium. d, tongue. b, b, mandibles. e, labium. c, c, maxillae. INSECTS I THEIR MOUTHS. 151 until at length it forms a double line, being folded onitself, so that the base is brought into close proximity tothe skin. Meanwhile the lancets have all been plungedin, and are…
Zoology · Microscopy
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