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In the immense class of insects the sexes sometimes differ in their locomotive-organs, and often in their sense-organs, as in the pectinated and beautifully plumose antennae of the males of many species. In Chloeon, one of the Ephemerae, the male has great pillared eyes, of which the female is entirely destitute. Sir J. Lubbock, 'Transact. Linnean Soc. vol. xxv, 1866, p. 484.
For the cigar-shaped body, instead of bearing the naked ribs of a skeleton, was snow white. And now she began to understand. Somebody had already caught the moth, had wrapped around its body a cylinder of white tissue paper tied it on with a fine, white silk thread. The moth was very still now, exploring the interstices between tumbler and table with heavy, pectinated antennæ.
This is an interesting form, and we have called it Cheyletus seminivorus It is of medium size, and especially noticeable from the tripartite palpi, which are divided into an outer, long, curved, claw-like lobe, with two rounded teeth at the base, and two inner, slender lobes pectinated on the inner side, the third innermost lobe being minute. The beak terminates in a sharp blade-like point.
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