Front matter
Reading edition
The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature
THE LIFE-STORY OF INSECTS
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Frontispiece. Transformation of a Gnat (Culex). Magnified 5 times.
Larva. (The head is directed downwards and the tail-siphon with spiracle points upwards to the surface of the water.)
Pupal Cuticle from which the Imago is emerging. (The pair of 'respiratory trumpets' on the thorax of the pupa are conspicuous. The wings of the Imago are crumpled, and the hind feet are not yet withdrawn.)
Adult Gnat. Female.
Cambridge: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridge printer John Siberch 1521