. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms; . allest are probably considerablylarger than the smallest members of an_\ other group. The\- are not numerous in temperate climates; there are only about fifty Britishspecies, and most of the larger of these areeither naturalised species, or merely casualvisitors from abroad. The Earwigs form the first family. Someare wingless, but most have very short wing-cases,under which very large wings, forming the mostbeautiful feature of these otherwise unattractiveinsects, are doubled and folded into a verysmall compass. Some
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms; . allest are probably considerablylarger than the smallest members of an_\ other group. The\- are not numerous in temperate climates; there are only about fifty Britishspecies, and most of the larger of these areeither naturalised species, or merely casualvisitors from abroad. The Earwigs form the first family. Someare wingless, but most have very short wing-cases,under which very large wings, forming the mostbeautiful feature of these otherwise unattractiveinsects, are doubled and folded into a verysmall compass. Some of the smaller species fiyreadil)-; but others, such as the Common E.\r-WIG, though furnished with ample wings, arerarely seen to use them. The most conspicuousorgan of the earwigs is the curious forceps atthe extremit) of the body, the use of whichdoes not seem to be well made out, though ithas been suggested that it is used for foldingand unfolding the wings. The forceps differsvery much in size and shape in different species ;it is always larger in the male than in the. rht!c bj IV. f. Dandt, AMERICAN Common in many zvare/iouses and nozu•wor/J found in most parts of the female, and often differently shaped. In thecommon earwig the male forceps is flattenedand contiguous at the base, and rounded and 292 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD
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