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

Note 122 — BOOK XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS.

John Bostock translation

Cuvier remarks, that the panorpis has a tail very like that of the scorpion; and that the ephemera, the ichneumons and others, have tails also. Aristotle, in the corresponding place, only says that the insects do not use the tail to direct their flight.

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