Such examples, however, might be multiplied ad infinitum; and I will not therefore devote further space to the bringing together of facts which it is hardly possible will be disputed,—especially as it has been my wish, in the present chapter, merely to enumerate what the organs and characters principally are which are more peculiarly sensitive to change, throughout the Annulose tribes. This I may venture to hope, though briefly, I have in part done; and I will consequently pass on to other considerations, which, even if somewhat alien to the immediate question of insect instability, should scarcely be altogether omitted in a treatise like this.
FOOTNOTES:
[46] Insecta Maderensia, pp. 56, 57.
[47] Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects, ii. p. 466.
[48] Id. ii. p. 469.
[49] Id. ii. p. 454.
[50] Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects, ii. p. 480.
[51] Essai, p. 103.
[52] Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects, ii. p. 473.
[53] Trans. of the Ent. Soc. of London, ii. p. 60.