CHAPTER X.. Secondary Sexual Characters of Insects.

SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS OF INSECTS.

Diversified structures possessed by the males for seizing the females--Differences between the sexes, of which the meaning is not understood--Difference in size between the sexes--Thysanura--Diptera--Hemiptera--Homoptera, musical powers possessed by the males alone--Orthoptera, musical instruments of the males, much diversified in structure; pugnacity; colours--Neuroptera, sexual differences in colour--Hymenoptera, pugnacity and colours--Coleoptera, colours; furnished with great horns, apparently as an ornament; battles; stridulating organs generally common to both sexes 341-385