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HAPPENING to refer to Prof. Jeffrey Bell's “Comparative Anatomy and Physiology” on the question of the sounds produced by insects, I read, with reference to the Cicadas:—“The sound seems to be produced by the vibration of membranes, placed on either side of the stigmata of the metathorax, and set in motion by the respiratory air”(p. 389).
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MORGAN, C. On the Sound-Producing Apparatus of the Cicadas . Nature 33, 368–369 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033368a0
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