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INSECT MISCELLANIES. 



Speaking of the suckers of butterflies, he remarks, 

 that ' the semblance is taken for the reaHty ; for 

 butterflies, in the same manner as their caterpillars, 

 and as beetles, bees, and all eating insects {broyeurs), 

 have two lips, one upper and one under ; two mandi- 

 bles ; and two jaws {machoires). This fact, though 

 opposed to received opinions, is not the less certain. 

 These parts, indeed, occupy their ordinary place. It 

 is true they are so much shrunk and so much modi- 

 fied in their form and in their relative proportions, 

 that it is not astonishing they have been mis- 

 conceived by excellent observers. How different 

 soever these parts may appear from ordinary man- 



Sucker, <Vc, of Sphinx celerio; greatly magnified. 



A, profile^of the head, with the sucker unrolled. B, Upper lip and man- 

 dibles. C, Jaw and part of the sucker. D, Labial palpi. E, Portion of 

 the sucker (A), showing the three lubes of which it is composed; view- 

 ed from above. F, The same parts, viewed from beneath. 



