wing-case

So he would wear himself to a shadow in the pursuit of food, and return carrying the most unsuitable items, such as large spiky beetles, all legs and wing-case, and immense, dry, and completely indigestible dragon-flies.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

Many of these had wiry, trilling songs, almost like birds, in addition to the scrapes and chirrups and wing-case buzzes of the insects of Earth.

A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

Many of these had wiry, trilling songs, almost like birds, in addition to the scrapes and chirrups and wing-case buzzes of the insects of Earth.

A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

On the right side of the body, in fig. 3, the wing has been folded up, and is covered by the wing-case.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

What a pretty problem is that of a Buprestis 'wing-case!

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

We have had opportunities of showing that the Cricket, the Grasshopper and many others draw their bow, which is on the right wing-case, over the sounding apparatus, which is on the left wing-case.

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Certainly this resembles a rough sketch of the future wing-case; but how different from the mature structure!

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

If we would carve an epitaph of some duration, what could we find better than a Beetle's wing-case, a Snail's shell or a Spider's web?

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

A fine transparent cushion limits the free edge of the embryo wing and the embryo wing-case.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

While a dictation lesson was being corrected around me, with generous assistance from the dictionary, I would examine, in the recesses of my desk, the oleander's fruit, the snapdragon's seed vessel, the wasp's sting and the ground beetle's wing-case.

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869