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The microscope and its revelations (1891)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 957

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esemble those of the Menelaus*in form and structure, but are more delicately marked (fig. 666).Their ribs are more nearly parallel than those of the Menelaus scale,and do not show the same transverse striation. When one of thesescales lies partly over another, the effect of the optical… … T FlG. CG5.—Scale of MorphoMenelaus, SCALES 901 monly termed the battledore scales, from their resemblance inform to that object (fig. 666, a). These scales, which occur in themales of several genera of the family Lyccenidce, and present aconsiderable variety of shape,1 are marked by narrow…

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