Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · Philadelphia : Blakiston · leaf 816
the intervening-spaces, may now be pretty certainly regarded as an optical effectof diffraction (§ 156). In the scale of a type nearly allied toLepisma, the Machilis polypoda, the very distinct ribbing (Fig. 418)is produced by the corrugation of the under membranous lamina * The Achromatic… … Scale of Lepisma sacchariua. 730 INSECTS AND AEACHNIDA. Pig. 418. alone; the upper or exposed lamina being smooth, with the excep-tion of slight undulations near the pedicle; and the cross-markings- being due to structure between the super-posed membranes, probably a depositon the interior surface…
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