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apparently about six at a time, the larger one being of course 

 the nearest to the orifice. Dr. Hansen thiii^vs the young 

 specimens are connected with the walls of the maternal passages 

 liy means of a process from the neck of each. But the details of 

 this and other points are insufficiently ascertained ; it is, indeed, 

 dif&ciLlt to understand how, with a process of the kind of which 

 a fragment is shown in Fig. 116, b, the Insect could fix itself 

 after a detachment for change of position. The young is said 

 to be very like the adult, but with a. simpler structure of the 

 antennae and abdomen. On the whole, it appears probable that 

 Hemimerus is, as stated by Dr. Hansen, a special family of 

 Orthoptera allied to Forficulidae ; further information both as to 

 structure and development are, however, required, as the material 

 at the disposition of the Swedish entomologist was very small. 



