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 87
n its centre. The hairs themselves here take the character of curvedspines, not unlike those of a rose-bush. Along the frontedge of the wing they are straight, stout, densely crowded,and overlapping in an inclined position; but the mostinteresting modification of these organs is seen at the… … DOUBLING AND HOOKS IX A BEE S WI>G. seeming to be, as it were, cut out of the hinder and innerside of the fore ones. The two edsres—the hinder edo-e of the fore pair and thefront edge of the hindpair — then corre-spond ; but it is neces-sary that, during flight,when the wings are ex-panded, the…
Zoology · Microscopy
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