. British insects : a familiar description of the form, structure, habits, and transformations of insects. firmly knit butsupple joints, all pointto the action for whichthis limb is this, the greatlength of the hind orleaping legs as com-pared with the two otherpairs should be remem-bered,and the leaping legof the grasshopper willbe seen to be as good an example of peculiar development for a special purposeas the swimming legs lately described. From this we turn to the fore leg of a near relation ofthe Grasshopper, but an insect of far other habit=Figure 14 represents the burro
. British insects : a familiar description of the form, structure, habits, and transformations of insects. firmly knit butsupple joints, all pointto the action for whichthis limb is this, the greatlength of the hind orleaping legs as com-pared with the two otherpairs should be remem-bered,and the leaping legof the grasshopper willbe seen to be as good an example of peculiar development for a special purposeas the swimming legs lately described. From this we turn to the fore leg of a near relation ofthe Grasshopper, but an insect of far other habit=Figure 14 represents the burrow-ing mole-like hand of the molecricket. In this curious instru-ment, as in the paddle of thegyriuus, the tibia and tarsus areunusually broad and flat, and soarranged as to be capable of fittingclose to each other and to the „. Fore leg of Mole Cricket, thigh. The tibia is deeply cut . seen from outside,o ^ •_ _ b. Ditto from inside. into finger-like lobes, to which it c. Coxa of its hand-like appearance, and like the broad short Hiud leg of Giassliopper {Acndaviridissima). Fig. 38 INSECTS. hand of the mole forms a most admirable implementfor burrowing. Figure 15 displays a pair of unraistakeable nippers,p- -^5 and woe betide the luckless shrimp ,^ or larva which finds itself betweenz^:^ 3^1 the forceps of the water-scorpion. \/v lli/Vy ^^ ^^^ raptorial character of tbese/T\r^^\ arms there can be little / ] It would require too much space ? to describe here the wonderful fore- Head, thorax, and fore- Jeg of the water-beetle Dyticus, leg of Naucori cini- , -l?^ , ^ ? , -i- i caule, magnified, one With tarsus dilated into a disk, claw closed. covered with the most exquisite little membranous suckers ;—the hind leg of the hive-bee, furnished on one side with a basket in whichto carry home the stores of pollen collected from flowerto flower, and on the other, with rows of combs for usein its manipulations within the hive;—or many anothercurious an
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