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 89
somewingless but active Insects, which are endowed with thepower of leaping in great perfection. From their hinderextremity being furnished with long projecting bristles,they are sometimes called Bristle-tails, but naturalistsdesignate the genus Jfachilis. If you can get one suffi-ciently still to… … EBISTLE-TAIL. (Slightly enlarged.) If you touch one of these nimble leapers, though everso lightly, you will see the result on your linger-ends;for they will be found covered with a thin stratum of thefinest dust, which displays the coloured metallic reflectionsseen on the insect. By touching one…
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