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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 121 — BOOK XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS.

John Bostock translation

Cuvier remarks that this assertion, borrowed from Aristotle, is incorrect. The wings of many of the Coleoptera are articulated in the middle, and so double, one part on the other, to enter the sheath.

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