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Excerpt from The Microscope, Vol. 3: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of Microscopy
The tongue, (fig. 2 T), is a broad fleshy lobe which is crossed with spiral fibers by which the fly is able to suck the juices it feeds on. There are little short sti hairs set around the base of the tongue. It is these by which we are so much annoyed. M indicates the palpi. These correspond to the instrument that the mosquito uses to pierce the flesh of his victim when he seeks blood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
