Fire Brat Identifier: marvelsofinsectl00steps (
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Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habitYear:
1916 (
1910s)Authors:
Step, Edward, 1855-1931Subjects:
Insects Animal behaviorPublisher:
New York : R. M. McBrideContributing Library:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:The Sii.ver-Fish Insect. A beautiful little creature, covered withsilvery scales, which is often abundant incupboards where old papers and discardedgarments are stored. It is of very simplestructure, and never develops wings. Tliefigure is si.x times the natural size. Silver-Fish Insects. 45Text Appearing After Image:One other member ^ of the genus, figured on page 43, makes its home among dead leaves in woods. The bronze-fish is an advance upon the silver-fish in the matter of eyes. Its two compound eyes are large, and meet in the centre of the head. In front of the head are three other eyes, two of them of a lengthened dumb-bell shape, and these are intermediate in character between simple and compound eyes. There is here a certain amount of development, for Bolivar states that when it leaves the egg the bronze-fish has only simple eyes, which change to compound eyes as it gets older. Dr. Sharp, however, has observed that very young individuals of the woodland species have compound eyes. There may, of course, be a difference between the two species in this respect. The scales with which these Insects are clothed easilv separate from the body, and so the appearance of the Insect is quite altered, for when intact these make a pi,otoby) //. Ma,n,i-.E.s. mosaic pattern. ^^^ Fire-br. . , , .. 10 ■Note About Images 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 work.