The sure test of the presence of the disease is found in the dead body of the larva, which is dark and discoloured; and if a toothpick or pin be thrust into it and then drawn back, the body contents will adhere to it in a stringy mass, to the extent of a half or even an entire inch, as if it were mucous or glue; later the bodies of the larvae dry and appear as black scales in the cell bottoms.

Swerving and twisting away from the misty lower air, he rises to the first faint warmth of sun, feels delicately for winghold on the sheer fall of sky.

Like other lethal-use frangibles, it is designed exclusively for use against soft targets. The projectile is composed of tungsten powder encapsulated by a traditional copper jacket. The powdered medium itself does not comprise a solid-mass projectile, per se, but it is tightly packed and contained within the jacket, which acts as the container. Like all frangible projectiles, these projectiles return to powder when impacting an object.

He was amused to note the disarray of his opponents.