1
Each of the two parts of the double-galleried tunnel, one narrow and one wide, measures at most a decimetre in length.
2
Beyond the cotton-wool cylinder wherein ten cocoons are lodged in a row comes an empty space of half a decimetre or more.
3
Each of the two parts of the double-galleried tunnel, one narrow and one wide, measures at most a decimetre (3.9 inches.-Translator'sNote.)
4
I open a reed-stump about two decimetres long by twelve millimetres in diameter.
5
The Leaf-cutter, therefore, uses only the front portion of the Worm's gallery, two decimetres at most.