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Page 55
... piercing proboscis , with a pair of man- dibles like the blades of scissors , quite similar to those of Phlebotomus , the sand - flies of the previous family , and to Simuliidae , the black- flies of the next . At any rate when they are ...
... piercing proboscis , with a pair of man- dibles like the blades of scissors , quite similar to those of Phlebotomus , the sand - flies of the previous family , and to Simuliidae , the black- flies of the next . At any rate when they are ...
Page 110
... piercing and sucking blood with the help of stylet - like mandibles and maxillae . When we meet blood- sucking flies again , they will have taken up the habit afresh , and , having lost their mandibles and maxillae , will have had to ...
... piercing and sucking blood with the help of stylet - like mandibles and maxillae . When we meet blood- sucking flies again , they will have taken up the habit afresh , and , having lost their mandibles and maxillae , will have had to ...
Page 275
... piercing the skin of their victims , and that it is unreasonable to imagine that this arose more than once in evolution . Hence he considers that all families of Nematocera that have blood- sucking members belong to one evolutionary ...
... piercing the skin of their victims , and that it is unreasonable to imagine that this arose more than once in evolution . Hence he considers that all families of Nematocera that have blood- sucking members belong to one evolutionary ...
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 3 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
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