Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · Philadelphia : Blakiston · leaf 831
certained to 711 INSECTS AND AEACHNIDA. contain a trachea or air-tnbe (§ 634); and it is probable, from theobservations of Mr. Newport, that the sucking-up of the jnices of aflower through the proboscis (which is accomplished with greatrapidity) is effected by the agency of the respiratory… … Haustellium (proboscis) of Vanessa. Newport (whose opinion is confirmed by the kindred inquiries ofDr. Hicks, § 628) to be organs of taste.—-Numerous other modifica-tions of the structure of the mouth, existing in the different tribesof Insects, are well worthy of the careful study of the…
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