. Elements of comparative zoology. Zoology. 234 SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY. jaws are strong, and venomous enough to kill the insects upon which these animals feed; but the alleged cases of serious or fatal poisoning of man as the result of spider- bites need authentication. ORDER III.—PHALANGIDA. This name is given to the animals familiarly known as 'harvestmen' and 'daddy-longlegs/ with small bodies in which there is no waist between thorax and abdomen,. FIG. 62.—Harvestman (Phalangium picturn). and with extremely long legs. These forms feed upon small insects, but are perfectly harmless to larger an
. Elements of comparative zoology. Zoology. 234 SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY. jaws are strong, and venomous enough to kill the insects upon which these animals feed; but the alleged cases of serious or fatal poisoning of man as the result of spider- bites need authentication. ORDER III.—PHALANGIDA. This name is given to the animals familiarly known as 'harvestmen' and 'daddy-longlegs/ with small bodies in which there is no waist between thorax and abdomen,. FIG. 62.—Harvestman (Phalangium picturn). and with extremely long legs. These forms feed upon small insects, but are perfectly harmless to larger animals. ORDER IV.—ACARINA. Here belong the mites, in which the unsegmented abdo- men is fused to the cephalothorax, and in which the first two pairs of appendages are modified into a piercing-organ. By means of this structure, the ticks burrow into the skin of cattle or of man, the itch- mite makes its way into the thin skin between the fingers, and the red mite sucks the juices of plants. As a rule the Acarina are parasites, and hence the group is largely made up of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kingsley, J. S. (John Sterling), 1854-1929. New York, H. Holt and Company
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