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The microscope and its revelations (1881)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · Philadelphia : Blakiston · leaf 823

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res of the Bee,showing the ocellites in situ on one side (a),and displaced on the other (b) ; a, a, a, steni-mata, b, b, antenna;. the number of • ocellites thusIn the higher Crustacea, how-ever, the ocellites are very numerous; and their compound eyes areconstructed upon the same general plan as… … individual ocellites are at once recognized, when the compoundeyes are examined under even a low magnifying power, by thefacetted appearance of the surface (Fig. 423, a), which is marked-out by very regular divisions either into hexagons or into squares : each facet is the corneule ofa separate…

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