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jar (Nytichelidon Europeeus, Rennie), and the ap- 

 pendages at the hps of the cod-fish (Gadifs morhiia), 

 the surmullet (Midliis barhatus), and some others. 

 This want of analogous organs in other animals of 

 course renders our investigation of the use of the 

 palpi in insects much more difficult. 



Stag beetle (^Lucanus Cents) on the Aving. 

 a a The four palpi, or antennules. 



Bonsdorf, in his singular tract upon the use of 

 the palpi, endeavours to show that they are organs 

 of smell * ; Knoch imagined that the upper pair were 

 * De Fabr. et Usu Palporum in Insectis, 



