242 MINUTE MARVELS OF NATURE 



instance is long and well adapted for reaching 

 the depths of flower blooms, for when these in- 

 sects are fully developed they give up their larval 



Fig. 163. Part of the mouth of a stag-beetle, 

 showing its brush-like tongue 



habits of devouring aphides, and become vegetable 

 feeders upon honey and probably pollen. 



Just one other example of a sucking proboscis, 

 but with a different arrangement. The coiled 

 watchspring-like form in Fig. 162 is the tongue 

 of a common and beautiful butterfly. This re- 



