. British insects : a familiar description of the form, structure, habits, and transformations of insects. WINGS OF INSECTS, AND THEIR CLASSIFICATION. 43 Fig. 17. very broad, the outline being rather more than the quarterof a circle. The veins radiatefrom a point in the thickenedpart of the membrane, and thewing is packed first by being. a. Wing of Earwig magnified. b. do. do. natural size. c. do. do. closed. closed together like a fan andthen transversely folded in twoplaces (fig. 17). From thiscomplicated double folding isderived the name of the order towhich the earwigs belong, viz.,EuPLEXO
. British insects : a familiar description of the form, structure, habits, and transformations of insects. WINGS OF INSECTS, AND THEIR CLASSIFICATION. 43 Fig. 17. very broad, the outline being rather more than the quarterof a circle. The veins radiatefrom a point in the thickenedpart of the membrane, and thewing is packed first by being. a. Wing of Earwig magnified. b. do. do. natural size. c. do. do. closed. closed together like a fan andthen transversely folded in twoplaces (fig. 17). From thiscomplicated double folding isderived the name of the order towhich the earwigs belong, viz.,EuPLEXOPTERA {iv, well, TrXeKToc, folded ; irT^pov, wing). For figures of Order II., Euplexoptera, see Plate IV.,fig. 1. To the earwig, the grasshopper, cricket, locust, and cock-roach (or blackbeetle of our kitchen) succeed. Resemblingthe earwig in the fan-like folding of the hind wing, theydijBTer from it in having no transverse folding (fig. 18), andfrom this character of the p. jg ?wing is derived the nameof the order under whichthese insects are ranged;namely, Orthoptera, orstraight - winged [opOog,straight; irrepov, a wing.)The fore wings, althoughmuch thickened, are less thick and horny than those ofeither the beetles or the earwig, and are useful in flight. And here we come upon a most curious little appara-tus. The merry chir
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