palpi

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• The palpi of the male are in this species each provided with a spiral screw resembling the tendril of a vine.

• The other two keep perfectly fresh and move their antennae and palpi at the touch of a straw.

• The Phrynid are very peculiar looking animals, the anterior legs being very long and slender and the maxillary palpi very large.

• The maxillary palpi vary in number, many having two on each maxilla and others only one.

• The lower lip and the jaws carry on the outside certain appendages or filaments which have received the name of palpi.