. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 248 Annals of the South African Museum. curiously foreshadowed even in those remote ages. But evidently they represent a type of adaptation without any reduction of parts, which was in its way a definitive and ideal solution of a mechanical problem, fully as efficient as widely different solutions that involve a far greater modification of the primitive insect plan, as, for instance, the most highly specialised groups of Lepidoptera, Diptera or Hymen- optera. Indeed, a living dragonfly of the larger k
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 248 Annals of the South African Museum. curiously foreshadowed even in those remote ages. But evidently they represent a type of adaptation without any reduction of parts, which was in its way a definitive and ideal solution of a mechanical problem, fully as efficient as widely different solutions that involve a far greater modification of the primitive insect plan, as, for instance, the most highly specialised groups of Lepidoptera, Diptera or Hymen- optera. Indeed, a living dragonfly of the larger kinds, in full vigour,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ]
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