Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 216. 1. Sting; 2. Tube; 3. Sheath; x 20. poses. Its sting presents so remarkable a modifica-tion of the parts lately described by Mr. Mills in. Fig. 217. 4. Poison tube; 5. Poison bag, x 20. his able and elaborate paper that it may be es-pecially interesting just now to point them sting in both this and the common wasp isdouble; but in the instance of my little visitor theyare placed in separate tubes, diverging from eachother like the prongs of a trident, the third bei
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 216. 1. Sting; 2. Tube; 3. Sheath; x 20. poses. Its sting presents so remarkable a modifica-tion of the parts lately described by Mr. Mills in. Fig. 217. 4. Poison tube; 5. Poison bag, x 20. his able and elaborate paper that it may be es-pecially interesting just now to point them sting in both this and the common wasp isdouble; but in the instance of my little visitor theyare placed in separate tubes, diverging from eachother like the prongs of a trident, the third being 200 IIARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. [Sept. 1, 1S6S. represented by a poison-tube between the othertwo. The sting is unbarbed, and in shape like theblade of a narrow, straight-pointed penknife, oneexquisitely keen edge of which projects on the out-side of each tube, cut away for that purpose; thepoint can also no doubt be thrust beyond the is made up of two very thin plates of a hornysubstance, united at their edges, the delicate su-ture so formed on the outer or cutting side servingto strengthen the edge, while that at the back,which is thicker, fits into a groove made for it inthe strong keeled bar below, in which it has a slid-ing motion. This b
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