LAPPING INSECTS. 



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will disappear, and the five pieces come plainly into 

 view. As a detailed description of this complicated 

 apparatus could not well be made intelligible without 

 magnified figures, we shall give such as appear to us 

 most interesting. 



structure of the bee's tongue. 



The first of these figures (a) represents the upper 

 side of the whole apparatus, the sheaths being opened 



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