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INSECT MISCELLANIES. 



jar (Nytichelidon Europeans, RENNIE), and the ap- 

 pendages at the lips of the cod-fish (Gadus morhua), 

 the surmullet (Mullus barbatus), 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. 



Staff beetle (Lucanus Gems') oa the wing. 

 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 Palporutn in Insectis. 



