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 93
the slenderest hair andthe broadly ovate, bluntly pointed,scales from the wings. You are familiar of course with thebrilliant little Blue Butterfly (Polyom-matus Alexis), which dances and glit-ters in the sunshine on waste places inJune. Among the scales of ordinaryform which clothe the lovely… … INSECTS : WINGS AND THEIR APPENDAGES. 81 of the entire scale is that of a battledore. The ribs arerather few and coarse, and they have this peculiarity, thateach rib swells at intervals into rounded dilations, eachof which has a minute black point in its centre. In someof these battledore scales…
Zoology · Microscopy
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