DISPERSION OF POLLEN BY ANIMALS. 



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joint of the maxillary palp is lengthened to an extraordinary extent, and its inner 

 surface is beset with stiff bristles and can be rolled up like a trunk (see fig. 240 ^ ). 

 It is used to seize the pollen, to conglomerate it into a ball and afterwards to hold 



Fig. 240.— Transport of Pollen by Egg-laying Insects. 



1 Brancli from the inflorescence of Yucca Whipplei; the middle flower open, that beneath it was open the previous night and is 

 now closed again, the rest of the flowers in bud. 2 Single flower of the same plant visited by a moth of the species Promiba 

 yuccasella ; the three front perianth-leaves removed. 3 Stigma of Yucca Whipplei. * Pronuha yuccasella flying to a flower 

 of Yucca Whipplei. = Head of Pronuha yuccasella with a ball of pollen held by the coiled maxillary palp. 6 Twig with inflores- 

 cence of Ficuspumila ; the urn-shaped inflorescence (or synconium) cut through longitudinally. ? Single female flower from 

 the bottom of the synconium of Ficus ptimila. ^, s Stamens of the same plant from the upper part of the synconium. 

 10 Synconium of Ficus Carica full of gall-flowers produced by Blastojjhaga, cut through longitudinally ; near the moutli of 

 the cavity is a Fig-wasp (Blastophaga grossorum) which has escaped from one of the galls, n Synconium of Ficus Carica 

 full of female flowers, cut througli longitudinally; near the mouth of the cavity are two Fig-wasps, one of which has 

 already crept into the cavity wliilst the second is about to do so. 12 Male flower, i^ Long-styled female flowers of Ficus 

 Carica. i* Gall produced from a short-styled gall-flower, is Blastophaga grossorum escaping from a gall, i^ a liberated 

 Blastophaga. " The same magnifled. 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 16, natura! size; a x 2; 5x20; ?, 8, 9, 12, 13 x 5; ", is, n x 8. 



it. In a very short time a moth collects by its means a ball of pollen, which is held 

 by the rolled-up palpi close underneath the head and resembles a great crop. Laden 

 with this lump of pollen, which is sometimes three times as large as its head, the 



