. British insects : a familiar description of the form, structure, habits, and transformations of insects. dsand shortened (fig. 16). The process of unfolding thismay be easily seen by watching a ladybird, cock-chafer, or other slow-moving beetle. Some beetles are with-out the second fold inthe wing, the wing beingwider, but not longerWing of large Water-beetle. than the wing-case. Other beetles again, such as the well known Devilscoachhorse, have the wing-case so short as not to covera third part of the abdomen, yet so perfect is the foldingof the underwiug that it is in most cases entirelyco
. British insects : a familiar description of the form, structure, habits, and transformations of insects. dsand shortened (fig. 16). The process of unfolding thismay be easily seen by watching a ladybird, cock-chafer, or other slow-moving beetle. Some beetles are with-out the second fold inthe wing, the wing beingwider, but not longerWing of large Water-beetle. than the wing-case. Other beetles again, such as the well known Devilscoachhorse, have the wing-case so short as not to covera third part of the abdomen, yet so perfect is the foldingof the underwiug that it is in most cases entirelycovered by the figures of Order I., Coleoptera, see Plates I., II., beetles which have short wing-cases are fol-lowed naturally by the earwigs, which resemble them inthis particular, while they are distinguished from themby the pincer-like termination of the body, and moreespecially by the form, veining, and folding of thewings, which also are not entirely covered by the veryshort wing-case, the exposed part being protected by athickening of the membrane. The wing of the earwig is. WINGS OF INSECTS, AND THEIR CLASSIFICATION. 43 Fig. 17. very broad, the outline being rather more than the quarterof a circle. The veins radiatefrom a point in the thickenedpart of the membrane, and thewing is packed first by being
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