Wing Cover

These are the _Calandra oryzæ_, the true rice weevil, distinguished from his European cousin by the two reddish spots on each _elytra_ or wing-cover, and known in America as the ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

Beetles are usually pinned through the right wing-cover at about one fourth of its length from the front end of it. ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

There is another you may often find; it is small and yellow, with eleven spots on each wing-cover. ❋ W. Houghton (N/A)

It injects its protoplasm between the two surfaces of an embryo organ, and the material forms a wing-cover, because it finds as guide the ideal archetype of which I spoke but now. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

The five hundred prisms of the bow biting upon the ridges of the wing-cover opposed to it set all four tympanums vibrating at once; the lower pair by direct friction, the upper pair by the vibration of the wing-cover itself. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

The powerful nervures of the dorsal portion of the wing-cover are of the deepest black, and their general effect is that of a complicated design, not unlike a tangle of Arabic caligraphy. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

The rest of the wing-cover shows a few more nervures of less importance, which hold the membrane stretched tight, but do not form part of the friction apparatus. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

The right wing-cover overlaps the left and almost completely covers it, except for the sudden fold which encases the insect's flank. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

The left or lower wing-cover is of similar structure, with the difference that the bow, the callosity, and the nervures occupy the upper face. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

In the musical apparatus of the Pine-chafer the pad of the finger-tip and the scrap of indiarubber are represented by the soft abdomen of the insect, and the glass is represented by the blade of the wing-cover, which forms a thin, rigid plate, easily set in vibration. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

Seen by transmitted light the wing-cover is of a very pale reddish colour, excepting two large adjacent spaces, one of which, the larger and anterior, is triangular in shape, while the other, the smaller and posterior, is oval. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

The substance of the wing-cover is finer here than elsewhere, and shows traces of iridescent though somewhat smoky colour. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

Then it rubs the rough edges of its hind leg against the edge of its wing-cover. " ❋ Julia Moody (1919)