It is over, and the mother departs, and we have not caught a glimpse of her internal mechanism.
Was I not right to insist?
An apparently insignificant fact has led to the authentic proof of a fact that the Larinidae had already made me suspect.

The long-beaked weevils have an internal probe, an abdominal rostrum, which nothing in their external appearance betrays; they possess, among the hidden organs of the abdomen, the counterpart of the grasshopper's sabre and the ichneumon's dagger..