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WITH regard to the above subject, treated of in an article by Mr. Lloyd Morgan in February last (NATURE, February 18, p. 368), I may mention that some time ago I examined the drum of the common cicadas found plentifully in the Himalaya near Simla, and which in the evenings send forth a deafening roar from the rhododendron-trees like the whirr of large machinery. Generally the arrangement of the drum and the powerful muscles was as figured by Mr. Morgan, but I also noticed the following particulars not mentioned by him.
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MIDDLEMISS, C. Sound-Producing Apparatus of the Cicadas. Nature 33, 582–583 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033582c0
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