 | William Kirby, William Spence - Beneficial insects - 1828 - 754 pages
...in the air while it climbs up to take its place ? ' Without arms or legs to ' PLATE XXHI. FIo. 1. a. support itself, the anxious spectator expects to see...numerous little hooks pointing in different directions", as well adapted to the end in view as the crotchets of the larva's prolegs, and some of these hooks... | |
 | 1848 - 796 pages
...take is to climb up to the required height. For this purpose it repeats the same ingenious manoenvre ; making its cast-off skin serve as a sort of ladder,...feels for the silken threads that are to support it.'* The anal extremity is produced into a little protuberance, which is covered with minute hooks ; these... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...take is to climb up to the required height. For this purpose it repeats the same ingenious manœuvre ; making its cast-off skin serve as a sort of ladder,...feels for the silken threads that are to support it." * The anal extremity is produced * Kirby and Spence. into a little protuberance, which is covered with... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1848 - 574 pages
...ladder, it successively, with different segments, seizes a higher and a higher portion, until in the cud it reaches the summit, where with its tail it feels for the silken threads that are to support it."1 Then by means of a number of little hooks, with which its anal extremity is covered, it entangles... | |
 | 1848 - 300 pages
...sueeessively, with different segments, seizes a higher and a higher portion, until in the end it reaehes the summit, where with its tail it feels for the silken threads that are to support it."1 Then by means of a number of little hooks, with whieh its anal extremity is eovered, it entangles... | |
 | R. E - 1849 - 448 pages
...same ingenious mano3uvre : making its cast skin serve as a sort of ladder, it successively, with its different segments, seizes a higher and a higher portion,...feels for the silken threads that are to support it. The tail is provided with a number of minute hooks which catch in the meshes of the silken button,... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 294 pages
...sueeessively, with different segments, seizes a higher and a higher portion, until in the end it reaehes the summit, where with its tail it feels for the silken threads that are to support it."1 Then by means of a number of little hooks, with whieh its anal extremity is eovered, it entangles... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Zoology - 1851 - 446 pages
...its case, and be suspended in the air while it climbs up to take its place ? Without arms or legs to support itself, the anxious spectator expects to see...feels for the silken threads that are to support it.* The anal extremity is produced into a little protuberance which is covered with minute hooks ; these... | |
 | 1856 - 852 pages
...until ia the end it reaches the summit, where, with its tail, it feels for the silken threads which are to support it. But how can the tail be fastened to tin-in '( This difficulty has been provided against by Creative Wisdom. The tail of the pupa is furnished... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1867 - 728 pages
...ladder, it successively, with different segmente, seize« a higher and a higher portion, until in the eu4 it reaches the summit, where, with its tail, it feels for the silken threads which are to support it. But how can the tail be fastened to them? This difficulty has been provided... | |
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It is now wholly out of the skin, against one side of which it is supported, but yet at some distance from the leaf. The next step it must take is to climb up to the required height. For this purpose it repeats the same ingenious manoeuvre, making its... 