 ... itself To effect this, instinct-guided, it seizes on a portion o: this shrivelled skin between two segments of its body holding it as with a pair of pincers, and thus, destitute of limbs, supports itself, till it withdraws the tail from the old useless...  British Butterflies - Page 77by James Duncan - 1860 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir William Jardine - Entomology - 1835 - 418 pages
...accomplish this, which seems to require an effort beyond the power of a creature unprovided with arras or legs, it seizes on a portion of the skin between...elongates the rings of its tail as much as possible, and si-i/es a higher portion of the skin, repeating the same manoeuvre till the extremity touch the hillock... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...itself, till it withdraws the tail from the old useless skin which sheathed it; it then, still clinging, elongates the rings of its tail as much as possible, and seizes a higher portion of the skin, and in this manner, climbing backwards as it were upon its exuviso, it repeats the manoeuvre till the... | |
 | English periodicals - 1844 - 520 pages
...itself, till it withdraws the tail from the old uselesb skin which sheathed it ; it then, still clinging, elongates the rings of its tail as much as possible, and seizes a higher portion of the skin, and in this manner, climbing backwaids as it were upon its cxuviaj, it repeats the manœuvre till the... | |
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