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Gruber further shews that their development is in part directly microsoft 2007 download due to the stimulus from the friction of one wing over the other. Lobes of opposite wing-covers.] In the Locustidae the opposite wing-covers differ from each other in structure (Fig.

13), and the action cannot, as in the last family, be reversed. The left wing, which acts as the bow, lies over the right wing which serves as the fiddle. One of the nervures (a) on the under surface microsoft 2007 download of the former is finely serrated, and is scraped across the prominent microsoft 2007 download nervures on the upper surface of the opposite or right wing. In microsoft 2007 download our British Phasgonura viridissima it appeared to me that the serrated microsoft 2007 download nervure is rubbed against the rounded hind-corner of the opposite wing, the microsoft 2007 download edge of which is thickened, coloured brown, and very sharp. In the right wing, but not in the left, there is a little plate, as transparent as talc, free antivirus downloadable surrounded by nervures, and called the speculum. In Ephippiger vitium, a member of this same family, we have a microsoft 2007 download curious subordinate modification; for the wing-covers are greatly reduced in size, but "microsoft 2007 download the posterior part of the pro-thorax is elevated into a kind of dome over the wing-covers, and which has probably the effect of microsoft 2007 download increasing the sound." (37. 453.) We thus see that the musical apparatus is more differentiated or specialised in the Locustidae (which include, I believe, the most powerful performers in the Order), than in the Achetidae, microsoft 2007 download in which both wing-covers have the same structure microsoft downloads xp and the same function. 121, 122.) Landois, however, detected in one of the Locustidae, namely microsoft 2007 download in Decticus, a short and narrow row of small teeth, mere rudiments, microsoft 2007 download on the inferior surface of the right wing-cover, which underlies the other and is never used as the bow. I observed the same rudimentary structure on the under side of the right wing-cover in Phasgonura viridissima. Hence we may infer with confidence that the Locustidae are descended microsoft 2007 download from a form, in which, as in the existing Achetidae, both wing-covers microsoft 2007 download had serrated nervures on the under surface, and could be indifferently used as the bow; but that in the Locustidae the two wing-covers microsoft 2007 download gradually became differentiated and perfected, on the principle of the division of microsoft 2007 download labour, the one to soft music free download mp act exclusively as the bow, and the microsoft 2007 download other as the fiddle. Gruber takes the same view, and has shewn that rudimentary teeth are commonly found on the inferior surface of the microsoft 2007 download right wing.

By what steps the more simple apparatus in the Achetidae originated, we do not know, but it is probable that the microsoft 2007 download basal portions of the wing- covers originally overlapped each other as they microsoft 2007 download do at present; and that the friction of the nervures produced a grating sound, as is now the case with the wing-covers of microsoft 2007 download the females. Walsh also informs me that he has noticed that the female of the Platyphyllum concavum, "when captured makes a feeble grating microsoft 2007 download noise by shuffling her wing-covers together.") A grating sound thus occasionally and accidentally made by the males, if it served them ever so little microsoft 2007 download as a love-call to the females, might readily have been intensified through sexual selection, by variations in the roughness of the nervures having been continually preserved.

Hind-leg of Stenobothrus pratorum: r, the stridulating ridge; lower figure, the teeth forming the ridge, much magnified (from Landois).

Upper figure, male; lower figure, female.] In the last and third family, microsoft 2007 download namely the Acridiidae or grasshoppers, the stridulation is mp3 download sites produced in a very microsoft 2007 download different manner, and according to Dr. Scudder, is not so shrill as in the preceding Families. 14, r) is furnished with a longitudinal microsoft 2007 download row of minute, elegant, lancet-shaped, elastic teeth, from 85 to 93 in number (40. 113.); and these are scraped across the sharp, projecting nervures microsoft 2007 download on the wing-covers, which are thus made to vibrate and resound. 133.) says that when one of the males begins to play, he first "bends the shank of the hind-leg beneath the thigh, where it is lodged in a furrow designed to receive it, and then draws the leg briskly up and down. He does not play both fiddles together, but free antivirus download free alternately, first upon one and then on the other." In many species, the base of the abdomen is hollowed out into a great cavity which is believed to act as a resounding board. African genus belonging to the same family, we meet with a microsoft 2007 download new and remarkable modification; in the males a small notched ridge projects obliquely from each side of the abdomen, against which the hind femora are rubbed. 462.) As the male is furnished with wings (the female being wingless), it is remarkable that the thighs are not rubbed in the usual manner against the wing-covers; but this may perhaps be accounted for by the unusually small size of the hind-legs. I have not been able to examine the inner surface of the thighs, which, judging from analogy, would be finely serrated.

The species of microsoft 2007 download Pneumora have been more profoundly modified for the sake of stridulation than microsoft 2007 download any other orthopterous insect; for in the male the whole body has microsoft 2007 download been converted into a musical instrument, being distended with air, like a great pellucid bladder, so as to increase the resonance. Trimen informs me that at the Cape of Good Hope these insects make a microsoft 2007 download wonderful noise during the night. In the three foregoing families, the females microsoft 2007 download are almost always destitute of an efficient musical apparatus. But there microsoft 2007 download are a few exceptions to this rule, for Dr. Gruber has shewn microsoft 2007 download that both sexes of Ephippiger vitium are thus provided; though the organs microsoft 2007 download differ in the male and female to a certain extent. Hence microsoft 2007 download we cannot suppose that they have been transferred from the male to the female, as appears to have been the case with the secondary microsoft 2007 download sexual characters of many other animals. They must have been independently youtube converter download developed in the two sexes, which no doubt mutually call to each other during the season of love. In most other Locustidae (but not according to Landois in Decticus) the females have rudiments of the stridulatory organs proper to the male; from whom it is probable that microsoft 2007 download these have been transferred.

Landois also found such rudiments on the under microsoft 2007 download surface of the wing-covers of the female Achetidae, and on the femora of the female Acridiidae. In the Homoptera, also, the females have the proper musical apparatus in a functionless state; and we shall hereafter microsoft 2007 download meet in other divisions of the animal kingdom with many instances of microsoft 2007 download structures proper to the male being present in a rudimentary condition microsoft 2007 download of the female.

Landois has observed another important fact, namely, that in microsoft 2007 download the females of the Acridiidae, the stridulating teeth on the femora remain microsoft 2007 download throughout life in the same condition in which they first appear during the larval state in both sexes. In the males, on the other hand, they become further developed, and acquire their perfect structure at the last moult, when the insect is mature and ready to breed.