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be functional as in the Coleoptera (beetles). In no 

 case are they developed except on the second and 

 third segments of the thorax (meso- and rneta- 

 thorax). 



A wing consists essentially of two flattened 



m.3 



Fig. 160. Skeleton of Butterfly's Wing. 



A, Costalvein ; B, subcostal; m\ nfi, median branches ; ri r%, radial ; si s5, subcostal 

 branches ; c, median vein ; D, submedian vein ; rfe. discocellular veinlet ; 

 in, internomedian veinlet ; E, internal vein. (After Butler.) 



membranes, the presence of which is due to the organ 

 arising in the form of a sac, which gradually becomes 

 elongated and flattened out ; through its substance 

 there pass blood-vessels and air tubes, the walls of 

 which are strengthened by chitin ; the chitin may 

 invade the rest of the wing, and convert it into a more 



