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trunk, when not in use, is ‘coiled up in a spiral beneath the 
head ; as is shown in fig. 87, representing the head of a 
Fig. 87.—Truyk oF A 
BurTrERFLy. 
Fig. 86.—CHIMPANZEE DRINKING. 
Butterfly, a, of which the eye is seen at ¢, the base of the 
antennz at 6, the palpi at ¢, and the trunk at d. In some of 
the Fly tribe, the trunk attains a length several times greater 
than that of the body, as shown in fig. 88, representing a 
Fig. 88—NEMESTRINA LONGIROSTRIS. 
dipterous (two-winged) insect from the Cape of Good Hope, 
which sucks the juices of a single kind of flower, the length 
of whose tube just equals that of its long proboscis. 
