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Social Life in the Insect World

CHAPTER III
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Let us remove them.

To the right and left lie two spacious cavities which are known in Provencal as the chapels (_li capello_).

Together they form the church (_la gleiso_).

Their forward limit is formed by a creamy yellow membrane, soft and thin; the hinder limit by a dry membrane coloured like a soap bubble and known in Provencal as the mirror (_mirau_).
The church, the mirrors, and the dampers are commonly regarded as the organs which produce the cry of the Cigale.

Of a singer out of breath one says that he has broken his mirrors (_a li mirau creba_).


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