A Text-book of Entomology: Including the Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology and Metamorphoses of Insects for Use in Agricultural and Technical Schools and Colleges as Well as by the Working EntomologistPackard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
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A Text-book of Entomology: Including the Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology and Metamorphoses of Insects for Use in Agricultural and Technical Schools and Colleges as Well as by the Working Entomologist
Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
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The distribution of the olfactory peg or tooth-like projections seems to
be much more limited than that of the pits in the Ichneumonidæ. Hauser
could not find any. _Apis mellifica_ possesses on each antennal joint
only about twenty slender pale teeth, scarcely a third as many as in
_Vespa crabro_; on the other hand, Formica, of which genus several
species were examined, seems to have far more teeth than pits; they are
relatively long, pale, transparent, and somewhat clavate; they are not
unlike those of Chrysopa; on the terminal joint only occur the round
openings (_Fvo_), which lead into a bottle-shaped invagination of the
integument (_Fv_) and contain an olfactory style (Fig. 281). In the
Tenthredinidæ only teeth and no pits were to be detected. Sirex has on
the under side of the nine last joints of each antenna a group of from
200 to 300 small teeth, which resemble those of _Vespa crabro_; Lyda has
on the terminal joints about 100 teeth. We may add that supposed organs
of smell occur on the antennæ of Campodea (Fig. 282).
Kraepelin also thus briefly summarizes Hauser’s statements as to the
forms of the different organs of smell.
The manifold nature of the antennal organs has, by Hauser, from
thorough studies of the nerve-elements belonging to them, been not
simplified but rendered more complicated. According to this
naturalist we may distinguish the following forms which the
olfactory organs may assume: 1. “Pale, tooth-like chitinous hairs on
the outer surface of the antennæ, which are perforated at the end;
nothing is known as to the relation of the nerve passing into it
(Chrysopa, Anophthalmus). 2. In pit-like depressions of the antennæ
arise _nerve-rods_ (without a chitinous case) which stand in direct
relation with a ganglion-cell lying under it. These pits are either
_simple_, viz. with only an ‘olfactory rod’ (Tabanus, Fig. 283, and
other Diptera, Vanessa), or _compound_ (Muscidæ, and most other
Diptera, and Philonthus). It is important that these pits are partly
_open_ (in the above-named groups of insects), and partly _closed_
and covered with a thin membrane, under whose concavity the
olfactory rods end (Orthoptera, Melolontha, and other lamellicorns).
3. Short, thick pits sunken slightly into the surface of the
antennæ, and over this a chitinous peg perforated at the end, in
whose base, from the interior, projects a very singular nerve-peg,
which is situated over an olfactory ganglion-cell, and provided with
a slender crown of little rods, and flanked on each side by a
flagellum-cell (Hymenoptera). 4. Round or crevice-like pits covered
over by a perforated chitinous membrane with nerve-rods like those
in 3, but in place of the flagellum-cell with ‘membrane-forming’
cells spread before it. Hauser finally mentions further differences
in the ganglion-cells sent out into the nerve-end apparatus. These
exhibit in Diptera and Melolontha only one nucleus, in Hymenoptera a
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