. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. 14 THE PERIODICAL Fig. 8. — Seven- teen-year Cica- da, side view of $ to show beak, a, and oviposi- tor, b. (After Eiley.) into the wound which it makes, and I have been unable to trace a single case where eggs were found in the flesh. All such accounts proved to be fabrications, and the straightforward report which Mr. V. T. Chambers, of Covington, Ky., gave in the August (1868) number of the American Naturalist, of a negro being stung on the foot by a Cicada, proved, after all, to be a mistake, f
. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. 14 THE PERIODICAL Fig. 8. — Seven- teen-year Cica- da, side view of $ to show beak, a, and oviposi- tor, b. (After Eiley.) into the wound which it makes, and I have been unable to trace a single case where eggs were found in the flesh. All such accounts proved to be fabrications, and the straightforward report which Mr. V. T. Chambers, of Covington, Ky., gave in the August (1868) number of the American Naturalist, of a negro being stung on the foot by a Cicada, proved, after all, to be a mistake, for "Mr. Winston did not see the insect with its instrument in situ;'''' (3) the three following facts, which are reliable, prove that stinging, in the usual sense of the term, by this instrument, is almost impossible: First, Mr. William Muir, associate editor of Golmati's Rural World, carefully lifted a female from off a tree while she was yet in the act of ovipositing, and as carefully placed her on his little finger, holding it as near as possible in the same direction and position as the branch grew from which she was taken* She instinctively endeavored to continue ovipositing, and, holding firmly to his finger, tried again and again to insert the ovipositor, but without the least success, for it could not make the least impression on the soft and yielding flesh, but continually slipped from one side to the other. Second, it is recorded that Mr. Peter A. Brown, of Philadelphia, Pa., himself inflicted a i^uncture with the ovipositor, several times, upon his hand, without experiencing any more pain than that produced by the prick of a pin or any other pointed instrument, and that no swelling ensued. Third, Dr. Hartman, of Pennsylvania, introduced some of the moisture from the ovipositor into an open wound and it caused no inflammation whatever. By the beak, or haustellum.—The beak (Fig. 8, a) is au organ which both sexes of the Cicada possess, and by which they take t
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