. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . FIG. 25. Alimentary tract of a grasshopper (Melanoplus differentials), e, colon ;cr, crop; gc, gc, gastric cieca ; i, ileum; m, mid intestine, or stomach; mt, Mal-pighian, or kidney, tubes; o, esophagus; p, pharynx; r, rectum; 8, salivarygland of left side. The digestive organs consist, as in the higher animals, of a contin-uous tube, somewhat longer than the body, varying in form with differ-ent insects, from a simple tube inthe Thysanura, to a complicatedsystem in the high


. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . FIG. 25. Alimentary tract of a grasshopper (Melanoplus differentials), e, colon ;cr, crop; gc, gc, gastric cieca ; i, ileum; m, mid intestine, or stomach; mt, Mal-pighian, or kidney, tubes; o, esophagus; p, pharynx; r, rectum; 8, salivarygland of left side. The digestive organs consist, as in the higher animals, of a contin-uous tube, somewhat longer than the body, varying in form with differ-ent insects, from a simple tube inthe Thysanura, to a complicatedsystem in the higher orders. Itis usually supplied with a crop,gizzard, stomach, and necessaryassimilative organs. The diges-tive tube is divided into threeparts: the large intestine, thesmall intestine, and the FIG. 26. Digestive system of a beetle (Carabus).a, anal gland; c (of fore gut), crop; c (of hindgut), colon, merging into rectum; d, evacu-ating duct of anal gland; g, gastric caeca;I, ileum; m, mid intestine; mt, Malpighiantubes; o, esophagus; p, proventriculus; r, res-ervoir. (After Kolbe.)


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