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Excerpt from A Monograph of the Leucosiadæ The extreme minuteness Of the eyes would agree with the idea Of their lurking and somewhat stationary habits; and this, with the almost rudimentary form Of the antennae, appears quite inconsistent with any high development of the functions of relation. In entire agreement with the view I have taken of the slow and feeble movements of these animals, as deduced from a consideration of the structure of the organs of locomotion, is the diminished extent of their respiration, evinced by the reduction Of the number of their branchiae to six pairs, whilst the foot-jaws and other manducatory organs are also small and weak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.