Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . h darker colour thanMermis; but both are developed in the intestinesof insects, who find the ova and swallow them—doubtless afterwards wishing they had not. On theevening of June 3rd I received by post a small boxfull of these worms from a friend at Bognor, theletter which accompanied them stating that theyhad been found in great numbers that morning inthe garden after the thunderstorm, chiefly dependingin the manner already alluded to, from the leaves ofthe apple-trees. Specimens w
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . h darker colour thanMermis; but both are developed in the intestinesof insects, who find the ova and swallow them—doubtless afterwards wishing they had not. On theevening of June 3rd I received by post a small boxfull of these worms from a friend at Bognor, theletter which accompanied them stating that theyhad been found in great numbers that morning inthe garden after the thunderstorm, chiefly dependingin the manner already alluded to, from the leaves ofthe apple-trees. Specimens were also found uponasparagus, and on bushes and shrubs. On turningthem out of the box, I found them to be quite dry Oct. 1,1867.] HARDWICKES SC1E NCE-G OS SIT 223 and shrivelled, and entwined together into one massso intricately that it appeared at first sight impos-sible to separate them by any other means thanthat adopted by Alexander with the knot of thePhrygians famous harness ; but although they re-sisted all attempts to flatten or uncoil them, theyproved to be sufficiently elastic to bear the amount. Fig. 221. Tail, x 99.
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