Computer Science – Sound
Scientific paper
Jan 1877
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Nature, Volume 15, Issue 377, pp. 254 (1877).
Computer Science
Sound
Scientific paper
MR. ROMANES (NATURE, vol. xv., p. 177) is not quite correct in supposing that the Death's Head is the only species of Lepidoptera known to ``stridulate.'' Possibly the phenomenon is far more general than is commonly believed, although only few instances of its occurrence have been observed. In the current number of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Mr. Swinton details the method in which a sound is believed to be produced by Vanessa io and V. urticæ, viz., by friction of a nervure of the hind-wings against a ``filed'' nervure in the fore-wings. Chelonia pudica, one of the tiger-moths, has long been known to produce a sound (cf. Solier, Annales Soc. Entomol. de France, 1837). In 1864, Guenée (Ann. Soc. Fr., pp. 398-401) notices that the genus Setina possesses a tympaniform organ on each side of the breast, analogous to that found in the Chelonia, and in the same volume he is followed by Laboulbène, who gives an elaborate anatomical description of the organ in Chelonia, with figures (pl. 10). Another tiger-moth (Euprepia matronula) is said to stridulate (cf. Czerny, Verhand. zool.-bot. Vereins in Wien, 1859); and the existence of the phenomenon is (at least) suspected in members of other groups of Lepidoptera.
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