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Fig. 153.—Partial metamorphosis of Melanoplus femur-rubrum, showing the five nymph stages, and the gradual growth of the wings, which are first visible externally in 3, 3b, 3c.—Emerton del.

“As, however, the first wing-layers depend upon the wrinkling of the general integument of the body through the increase in the upper layer, the further growth of the wings depends in the later stages upon the wrinkling of the epidermis of the wing-membrane even, which fact we also observe under the microscope when the new wings drawn forth from the old covers appear at first to be quite creased together. These wing-like wrinkles in the skin are not empty pouches, but contain tissues and organs within, which are connected with the skin, as the fat of the body, the network of tracheæ, muscles, etc. Alongside the tracheæ, running through the former wing-pouches and accompanied by the nerves, there are canals through which the blood flows in and out.

Fig. 154.—Stages in the growth of the wings of the nymph of Termes flavipes: A, young; a, a wing enlarged. B, older nymph; b, fore wing; n, a vein. C, wings more advanced;—D, mature.