wing case

Now they could see the feathers and wing cases that made up its pelt.

It is made out of one million six hundred thousand jewel-scarab wing cases.

On the wing cases, it has a black marking shaped like a "T".

They are black or brown with grayish "hair" on their upper bodies and wing cases.

The bright red wing cases were edged with cream.

A hand touched my wing casing, a human hand.

The male's wing cases are shiny, while those of the female are finely grooved.

There was a generalized thrill at these words, a vibration of wing cases, a moment's shrill exultation.

Before they dive, they collect air bubbles in their wing cases which goes through the spiracles.

The pupae are greenish in colour and have greatly expanded wing cases.

The wing cases are brownish-red and have almost no redish spots on them.

His daemon, a large and iridescent green-backed beetle, clicked her wing cases.

It has metallic-green wing cases with a black head and thorax which has two white vertical stripes.

It is covered with white hairs (except on the wing cases) and has orange hairs on the top of the head.

He was an oldster, beginning to silver around the edges, his thickened wing cases showing the marks of repeated paring.

Here you can see beetle wing cases, tortoiseshell, ivory, pearls, feathers from exotic birds, and even in one case a whole humming-bird!

Rose chafers are capable of very fast flight; they do it with their wing cases down thus resembling a bumble bee.

Naturally the commonest insect fossils are the most durable parts, like the wing cases (elytra ) of the beetles.

Another distinguishing feature is the three raised longitudinal lines on each wing case - a feature common to all beetles in the family Oedemeridae.

He turned to a wall display, selected a two-foot broadsword fashioned from the iridescent wing case of a Blang.

Its wing cases were erect, like a ladybird's about to fly, and the wings inside were beating so furiously that they were only a blur.

It was faintly ribbed and looked less metallic than chitinous, as if it had been wrought from the wing casing of some large beetle.

Monster flying beetles with horny wing cases stiffly stretched blundered above the reeking, smoking pyre.

The pupa naturally rises to the surface of the water due to an air pocket between the wing cases that make the pupa lighter than water.

They breathe oxygen by trapping air beneath their wing cases when they are on the surface as the oxygen is trapped by tiny hairs.