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 odours-Coleoptera, colours; furnished with great horns, apparently as an ornament; battles, stridulating organs generally common to both sexes.
In the immense class of insects the sexes sometimes differ in their locomotive-organs, and often in their sense-organs, as in the pectinated and beautifully plumose antennae of the males of many species. In Chloeon, one of the Ephemerae, the male has great pillared eyes, of which the female is entirely destitute. (1. Sir J. Lubbock, ‘Transact. Linnean Soc. ' vol. xxv, 1866, p. 484. With respect to the Mutillidae see Westwood, ‘Modern Class. of Insects,' vol. ii. p. 213.) The ocelli are absent in the females of certain insects, as in the Mutillidae; and here the females are likewise wingless. But we are chiefly concerned with structures by which one male is enabled to conquer another, either in battle or courtship, through his strength, pugnacity, ornaments, or music. The innumerable contrivances, therefore, by which the male is able to seize the female, may be briefly passed over.
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