Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 536
edLatin word meaning a drinking-sucking apparatus), when not in useis coiled up like a watch-spring. Itis an extremely beautiful objectwhen magnified by a microscope,owing largely to a peculiar bandedarrangement of the muscles and tis-sues of the proboscis. These muscles uncoiland direct the… … PECULIAR DOUBLE- GLOVED FORM OF THE DRONE-FLY STONGUE, OR PROBOSCIS. 1036 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Sept.
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