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 164
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 now sunk into your flesh to… … TONGUE OF BLOW-FLT. The tongue of one of the common Flies (House-fly,Blow-fly, &c), is an exquisite microscopical object, fromits extreme complexity and beauty. You are familiarwith the way in which a fly, having alighted close to adrop of tea on the table, applies to it a proboscis with…
Zoology · Microscopy
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