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The Leadership
Experience
SEVENTH EDITION
RICHARD L. DAFT
Owen Graduate School of Management
Vanderbilt University
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To the spiritual leaders who shaped my growth
and development as a leader and as a human being.
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BRIEF CONTENTS
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CONTENTS vii
Consider This! 112 5.5 Leading with Love versus Leading with Fear 153
4.4 Social Perception and Attributions 114 Leader’s Self-Insight 5.3 154
4.4a Perceptual Distortions 114 5.5a Fear in Organizations 155
4.4b Attributions 115 In the Lead 155
In the Lead 116 5.5b Bringing Love to Work 156
4.5 Cognitive Differences 116 Consider This! 157
4.5a Patterns of Thinking and Brain 5.5c Why Followers Respond to Love 158
Dominance 117 Leadership Essentials 158
Leader’s Self-Insight 4.4 118 Discussion Questions 159
In the Lead 119 Leadership at Work 160
4.5b Problem-Solving Styles: Jungian Types 120
Mentors 160
4.6 Working with Different Personality Types 122
Leadership Development: Cases for Analysis 160
Leader’s Self-Insight 4.5 123
The New Boss 160
Leadership Essentials 126
The USS Florida 162
Discussion Questions 127
References 163
Leadership at Work 127
Past and Future 127 Chapter 6: Courage and Moral Leadership 166
Leadership Development: Cases for Analysis 128 6.1 Moral Leadership Today 168
A Nice Manager 128 6.1a The Ethical Climate in Business 168
Environmental Designs International 130 Leader’s Bookshelf 169
References 131 6.1b Leaders Set the Ethical Tone 169
In the Lead 170
Chapter 5: Leadership Mind and Emotion 134 Leader’s Self-Insight 6.1 172
5.1 Leading with Head and Heart 136 6.2 Acting Like a Moral Leader 173
5.2 Mental Models 136 6.3 Becoming a Moral Leader 174
5.2a Assumptions 138
6.4 Servant Leadership 176
5.2b Changing or Expanding Mental Models 138
6.4a Authoritarian Management 176
In the Lead 139 6.4b Participative Management 177
5.3 Developing a Leader’s Mind 140 6.4c Stewardship 177
5.3a Independent Thinking 140 6.4d The Servant Leader 178
Leader’s Bookshelf 141 In the Lead 179
5.3b Open-Mindedness 142 Leader’s Self-Insight 6.2 180
Leader’s Self-Insight 5.1 143 6.5 Leading with Courage 180
5.3c Systems Thinking 144 6.5a What Is Courage? 181
5.3d Personal Mastery 145
Consider This! 181
5.4 Emotional Intelligence 146
In the Lead 182
5.4a What Are Emotions? 146
Leader’s Self-Insight 6.3 184
5.4b Why Are Emotions Important? 147
6.5b How Does Courage Apply to Moral
5.4c The Components of Emotional
Leadership? 184
Intelligence 149
6.5c Finding Personal Courage 185
In the Lead 152
In the Lead 186
Leader’s Self-Insight 5.2 153
Leadership Essentials 187
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The Boy, the Girl, the Ferryboat Captain, and the Hermits 191 In the Lead 213
References 192 7.6 What Followers Want from Leaders 213
7.6a Clarity of Direction 214
Chapter 7: Followership 196 7.6b Opportunities for Growth 214
7.1 The Art of Followership 198 7.6c Frequent, Specific, and Immediate
Feedback 216
7.1a Learn to Manage Up as Well as Down 199
7.1b Managing Up Presents Unique Challenges 199 Leader’s Self-Insight 7.3 217
7.6d Protection from Organizational
In the Lead 199
Intrusions 217
7.2 What Your Leader Wants from You 200
Leadership Essentials 218
7.3 Styles of Followership 201
Discussion Questions 218
Leader’s Self-Insight 7.1 203
Leadership at Work 219
In the Lead 204
Follower Role Play 219
Consider This! 205
Leadership Development: Cases for Analysis 220
7.4 Strategies for Managing Up 205
Waiting for Clearance 220
7.4a Understand the Leader 205
Jake’s Pet Land 221
7.4b Tactics for Managing Up 206
References 222
Leader’s Self-Insight 7.2 207
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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PREFACE
Many leaders have recently had their assumptions challenged about how organiza-
tions succeed. Leaders are struggling to make sense of the shifting environment and
to learn how to lead the people in their companies effectively and successfully in the
midst of turmoil. The crisis in the housing, mortgage, and finance industries and
resulting recession; volatile oil prices; ethical scandals; political turmoil; and other
events have dramatically shifted the organizational and economic landscape. This
edition of The Leadership Experience addresses themes and issues that are directly
relevant to the current turbulent environment. My vision for the seventh edition is
to give students an exciting, applied, and comprehensive view of what leadership is
like in today’s world. The Leadership Experience integrates recent ideas and appli-
cations with established scholarly research in a way that makes the topic of leader-
ship come alive. Organizations are undergoing major changes, and this textbook
addresses the qualities and skills leaders need in this rapidly evolving world.
Recent chaotic events, combined with factors such as a growing need for
creativity and innovation in organizations, the rise of social media, the growth of
e-business and mobile commerce, the use of virtual teams and telecommuting, glob-
alization, the growing problem of cybercrime, and other ongoing transformations
place new demands on leaders that go far beyond the topics traditionally taught in
courses on management or organizational behavior. My experiences teaching lead-
ership to students and managers, and working with leaders to change their organiza-
tions, have affirmed for me the value of traditional leadership concepts while
highlighting the importance of including new ideas and applications.
The Leadership Experience thoroughly covers the history of leadership studies
and the traditional theories but goes beyond that to incorporate valuable ideas such
as leadership vision, shaping culture and values, leadership courage, and the impor-
tance of moral leadership. The book expands the treatment of leadership to capture
the excitement of the subject in a way that motivates students and challenges them
to develop their leadership potential.
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ORGANIZATION
The organization of the book is based on first understanding basic ways in which
leaders differ from managers, and the ways leaders set direction, seek alignment
between organizations and followers, build relationships, and create change. Thus,
the organization of this book is in five parts:
1. Introduction to Leadership
2. Research Perspectives on Leadership
3. The Personal Side of Leadership
4. The Leader as a Relationship Builder
5. The Leader as Social Architect
The book integrates materials from both micro and macro approaches to lead-
ership, from both academia and the real world, and from traditional ideas and
recent thinking.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES
This book has a number of special features that are designed to make the material
accessible and valuable to students.
In the Lead The Leadership Experience is loaded with new examples of leaders in
both traditional and contemporary organizations. Each chapter opens with a real-
life example that relates to the chapter content, and several additional examples are
highlighted within each chapter. These examples are drawn from a wide variety of
organizations including education, the military, government agencies, businesses,
and nonprofit organizations.
Consider This! Each chapter contains a Consider This box that is personal, compelling,
and inspiring. This box may be a saying from a famous leader, or wisdom from the
ages. These Consider This boxes provide novel and interesting material to expand
the reader’s thinking about the leadership experience.
Leader’s Bookshelf In this edition, six of the 15 chapters have new Leader’s Bookshelf
reviews. A unique feature of The Leadership Experience is that each chapter
includes a review of a recent book relevant to the chapter’s content. The Leader’s
Bookshelf connects students to issues and topics being read and discussed in the
worlds of academia, business, military, education, and nonprofit organizations.
New Leader Action Memo This feature helps students apply the chapter concepts in their
own lives and leadership activities and directs them to self-assessments related to
various chapter topics.
Leader’s Self-Insight These boxes provide self-assessments for learners and an opportu-
nity to experience leadership issues in a personal way. These exercises take the form
of questionnaires, scenarios, and activities.
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Student Development Each chapter ends with discussion questions and then two activ-
ities for student development. The first, Leadership at Work, is a practical, skill-
building activity that engages the student in applying chapter concepts to real-life
leadership. These exercises are designed so students can complete them on their own
outside of class or in class as part of a group activity. Instructor tips are given for
maximizing in-class learning with the Leadership at Work exercises. Leadership De-
velopment: Cases for Analysis, the second end-of-chapter activity, provides two
short, problem-oriented cases for analysis. These cases test the student’s ability to
apply concepts when dealing with real-life leadership issues. The cases challenge the
student’s cognitive understanding of leadership ideas while the Leadership at Work
exercises and the feedback questionnaires assess the student’s progress as a leader.
Business Insights: Essentials’ intuitive user interface makes it easy for students and instruc-
tors to search and find in-depth information on businesses, industries, and products.
Features and benefits include the ability to search across multiple data types from a
single search box with targeted search options by category. This includes company
information, articles, industry data, SWOT Reports, Thomson Reuters Company
Financials and Investment Reports, Market Share Reports, and Industry Essays. We
have created assignments based on articles that connect directly with the content
covered in your text, including assessment questions to test students on their knowl-
edge of the content and emphasizing real-world examples.
MindTap¤ Management for Daft’s The Leadership Experience, 7th Edition, is the digital learning
solution that helps instructors to engage and transform today’s students into critical
thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can per-
sonalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you
turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into
higher-level thinkers.
As an instructor using MindTap, you have at your fingertips the right content
and a unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, all in an interface
designed to improve workflow and save time when planning lessons and course
structure. The control over building and personalizing your course is all yours, so
you can focus on the most relevant material while also lowering costs for your stu-
dents. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student track-
ing that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics
of interactivity in the course.
The MindTap Assignments are fully integrated with the text, providing calcu-
lated combinations of lower- and higher-order thinking skills exercises. Students can
work together in the experiential exercises to create videos, write papers, deliver pre-
sentations, and more. Interactive Self-Assessments engage students by helping them
make personal connections to the content presented in each chapter. A flexible grad-
ing system offers grade analytics and grade book export tools to work with any
learning management system.
ANCILLARIES
This edition offers a wide range of instructor ancillaries to fully enable instructors to
bring the leadership experience into the classroom. These ancillaries include:
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Instructor’s Manual
A comprehensive Instructor’s Manual is available to assist in lecture preparation.
Included in the Instructor’s Manual are the chapter outlines, suggested answers to
end-of-chapter materials, suggestions for further study, and a quick-glance overview
for each chapter of the available MindTap resources to assist instructors in their
planning.
Test Bank
Cengage Learning Testing Powered by Cognero is a flexible, online system that
allows you to author, edit, and manage test bank content from multiple Cengage
Learning solutions; create multiple test versions in an instant; and deliver tests from
your LMS, your classroom, or wherever you want. The test bank for The Leader-
ship Experience, seventh edition, includes approximately 60 questions per chapter
to help you in writing examinations. Types of questions include true/false, multiple
choice, completion, short-answer, and essay, with all questions tagged to relevant
national competencies. To ensure consistency across our entire package, the content
of the test bank has been fully reviewed and updated by the same authors who have
crafted our new digital resources.
Videos
Videos compiled specifically to accompany The Leadership Experience, seventh edi-
tion, allow students to engage with the textual material by applying theories and
concepts to real-world situations.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Textbook writing is a team enterprise. This book has integrated ideas and support
from many people whom I want to acknowledge. I want to extend special thanks to
my editorial associate, Pat Lane. I could not have undertaken this revision without
Pat’s help. She skillfully drafted materials for the chapters, found original sources,
and did an outstanding job with last-minute changes, the copyedited manuscript,
art, and galley proofs. Pat’s talent and personal enthusiasm for this text added
greatly to its excellence.
Here at Vanderbilt I want to thank my assistant, Linda Roberts, for the tremen-
dous volume and quality of work she accomplished on my behalf that gave me time
to write. Eric Johnson, the dean at Owen, and Sal March, associate dean, have
maintained a positive scholarly atmosphere and supported me with the time and
resources to complete the revision of this book. I also appreciate the intellectual
stimulation and support from friends and colleagues at the Owen School—Bruce
Barry, Ray Friedman, Jessica Kennedy, Rich Oliver, David Owens, Ty Park, Ranga
Ramanujam, Bart Victor, and Tim Vogus.
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I want to acknowledge the reviewers who provided feedback. Their ideas helped
me improve the book in many areas:
The developers at Cengage Learning also deserve special mention. Senior Prod-
uct Manager Mike Roche supported the concept for this book and obtained the
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resources necessary for its completion. Associate Content Developer Jamie Mack
provided terrific support for the book’s writing, reviews, and production.
I also thank Bob Lengel at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Bob’s enthusi-
asm for leadership many years ago stimulated me to begin reading, teaching, and
training in the area of leadership development. His enthusiasm also led to our collabo-
ration on the book Fusion Leadership: Unlocking the Subtle Forces That Change
People and Organizations. I thank Bob for keeping the leadership dream alive, which
in time enabled me to pursue my dream of writing this leadership textbook.
Finally, I want to acknowledge my loving daughters Danielle, Amy, Roxanne,
Solange, and Elizabeth. Although everyone is now pursuing their own lives and
careers, I appreciate the good feelings and connections with my children and grand-
children. On occasion, we have been able to travel, vacation, watch a play, or just
be together—all of which reconnect me to the things that really count.
Richard L. Daft
Nashville, Tennessee
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When the weather is wet or cold the Ascalaphi repose on the stems
of grass, with their wings placed in a roof-like manner, with the head
downwards, and are then very successful in concealing themselves
by the positions they assume, and by sidling round the stems to
escape from enemies. Some information as to their metamorphosis
has been obtained, though knowledge of this point is far from
complete even as regards our European species of the typical genus
Ascalaphus. For a long time it was supposed that a larva mentioned
by Bonnet in his writings was that of Ascalaphus, but Brauer[386] is
of opinion that such is not the case, and as he has described the
metamorphoses of A. macaronius he is no doubt correct. The eggs
(Fig. 303, A), forty or fifty in number, are laid in two parallel rows on
the stems of grass. The larvae (Fig. 304, larva of Helicomitus ?) are
in general appearance somewhat like those of Myrmeleon; they are
carnivorous in their habits, like the ant-lions, and have similar
extraordinarily developed mandibles. Efforts to rear the young larvae
failed, but they were kept alive for some time by supplying them with
Aphidides found on Centaurea jacea. The cocoon is globular, and
the change from the nymph state to the imago is made in the
cocoon, the structure of the mandibles of the pupa being peculiar,
and specially adapted to the purpose of opening the cocoon.[387]
The larvae of Ascalaphides, although so like the ant-lions in
appearance, do not form pitfalls for the capture of their prey, but lurk
under leaves on the ground, or under stones; they do not move
backwards, but progress forwards in an ordinary manner; the habit of
backward movement that we noticed in Myrmeleon being probably
correlative with the habit of forming pitfalls. Hagen states[388] that the
larvae of Ascalaphides and Myrmeleonides, in addition to their
peculiarities of form and mandibular structure, are distinguished from
those of other Hemerobiidae by the hind legs having the tibia and
tarsus united without articulation. Westwood[389] has recently given
an account of the young larvae of a Ceylonese Ascalaphid of
doubtful species, but possibly Helicomitus insimulans; these were
observed by Mr. Staniforth Green to have the very peculiar habit of
sitting together in a long row on the stem of a plant, with the jaws
widely extended and the body of each one covered by the head of
the individual next it (Fig. 303, B). The little creatures waited patiently
in this position until a fly walked between the mandibles of one of
them, then these formidable weapons immediately closed, and did
not relax their hold until the fly was sucked dry. If Westwood is
correct, the young larva of this species differs much from the adult
one, the back of the head being broad and the setigerous processes
of the body very much more developed. Nearly thirty genera of
Ascalaphides are known.[390] In the genus Haplogenius we find an
exception to the usual rule that the wings in repose are held in a
roof-like manner, it having been noticed by Bates that in the species
in question the wings are held expanded as in the dragon-flies.
Osmylus and its allies, including Sisyra, are now frequently treated
as a separate sub-family, Osmylides, equivalent to the Chrysopides.
In it is placed a very anomalous Insect—Psectra dispar—of great
rarity. The male has only two wings, the posterior pair being the
merest rudiments, though the female has the four wings normally
developed. Individuals of the male have been found[397] in widely
separated localities in the Palaearctic region—Somersetshire being
one of them—and also in North America.
The eggs are very remarkable objects (Fig. 314), each one being
supported at the top of a stalk many times as long as itself; in some
species (C. aspersa) the eggs are laid in groups, those of each
group being supported on a common stalk. The larvae (Fig. 315) are
of a very voracious disposition, and destroy large quantities of plant-
lice by piercing them with sucking-spears, the bodies of the victims
being afterwards quickly exhausted of their contents by the action of
the apparatus connected with the spears. The larvae of two or three
species of Chrysopa cover themselves with the skins of their victims
after the manner of the larvae of Hemerobius; but most of the larvae
of Chrysopa are unclothed, and hunt their victims after the fashion of
the larvae of Coccinellidae, to which these Chrysopa larvae bear a
considerable general resemblance. These larvae have a remarkable
structure at the extremity of their feet, but its use is quite unknown
(Fig. 315, B, C). Some larvae of the genus make use of various
substances as a means of disguise or protection. Dewitz noticed[399]
that some specimens he denuded of their clothing and placed in a
glass, seized small pieces of paper with their mandibles and,
bending the head, placed the morsels on their backs; here the
pieces remained in consequence of the existence of hooked hairs on
the skin. Green algae or cryptogams are much used for clothing, and
Dewitz supposes that the Insect spins them together with webs to
facilitate their retention. According to Constant and Lucas[400] the
larvae of Chrysopa attack and kill the larvae of Lepidoptera and
Phytophagous Hymenoptera. The curious form we figure (Fig. 316)
has been hatched from eggs found by Brauer on Pinus abies in
Austria. The eggs were of the stalked kind we have described; the
young escaped from them in the autumn, twelve days after
deposition, but did not take any food till the following spring.
These little Insects are the smallest of the Order Neuroptera, and
have the appearance of winged Coccidae; their claim to be
considered members of the Neuroptera was formerly doubted, but
their natural history is quite concordant with that of the Hemerobiid
groups, near which they are now always placed. Löw has made us
acquainted with the habits and structure of an Austrian species,
Coniopteryx lutea Wallg., but for which he has proposed the new
generic name Aleuropteryx; the larvae are found on Pinus mughus at
Vienna feeding on Aspidiotus abietis, which they pierce with sucking-
spears, after the fashion of the Hemerobiides; when full fed they spin
a cocoon formed of a double layer of silk, in which metamorphosis
takes place in a manner similar to that of other Hemerobiidae. The
better-known genus Coniopteryx differs from Aleuropteryx in having
the sucking-spears short and nearly concealed by the front of the
head, which is somewhat prolonged.
Fig. 317.—Coniopteryx psociformis. Cambridge. (After Curtis.) A, The
insect with wings expanded, magnified; B, with wings closed,
natural size.
CHAPTER XXI
The perfect Insect, though the wings are usually ample, has but
feeble powers of flight, and rarely ventures far from the water it was
reared in; it has a moth-like appearance, and the wings in repose
meet, at an angle, in a roof-like manner over the back (Fig. 326, E).
The head is small, with the front inflexed; it has two large compound
eyes, and usually three ocelli; the antennae are slender, thread-like,
and occasionally attain a great length. The parts of the mouth are
very peculiar, the labrum and the palpi—especially the maxillary
palps—being well developed, while the lobes of the maxillae and
labium are amalgamated and therefore indistinct. The labrum is
more or less elongate, and is more mobile than is usual in
mandibulate Insects; it is held closely applied to the maxillae. These
latter are small, have usually only a single small free lobe; they are
united to one another and to the labium by membrane in such a
manner as to form a channel along the middle of the mouth, the
labrum forming the roof of this channel. The palpi are in some cases
(Sericostomatides) of a remarkable nature; their joints vary in
number from three to five, and differ sometimes in the sexes of the
same species. The lower lip appears as a plate supporting the labial
palpi, which are three-jointed and do not exhibit any peculiarities of
structure comparable with those we have mentioned as so frequently
existing in the maxillary palps. Difference of opinion exists as to the
mandibles, some entomologists declaring them to be entirely absent,
while others state that a small tubercular process that may be seen
in some species on each side of the labrum is their representative.
The prothorax is very small, the notum is the largest piece but is
quite short, the side-pieces are very small, and the sternum appears
to consist only of membrane. The mesothorax is much the largest
segment of the body; its sternum is large, but is nearly perpendicular
in direction, and is much concealed by the elongate, free front coxae,
which repose against it. The metathorax is intermediate in size
between the pro- and meso-thorax; its side-pieces are rather large,
but the sternum is membranous, with a heart-shaped piece of more
chitinous consistence in the middle, entirely covered by the middle
coxae. The side-pieces both of the meso- and meta-thorax are large,
and are closely connected; the middle and posterior coxae are very
large, elongate, and prominent, and the middle pair slope
backwards, so that their tips are in contact with the tips of the hind
pair. The abdomen is cylindric and rather slender; it looks as if
formed of eight segments in addition to the terminal segment; this
latter in the male usually bears remarkably modified appendages.
The first ventral plate is sometimes, if not always, entirely
membranous; indeed the texture of the segments is in general very
delicate, so that they shrivel up to an extent that renders their
comprehension from dried specimens very difficult. The legs are
always elongate, the coxae attaining in some forms a remarkable
length, and the tibiae and tarsi are armed with many spines; the tarsi
are five-jointed, slender, frequently very elongate, terminated by two
large claws and an apparatus, placed between them, consisting of a
pair of hair-like processes with a membranous lobe.
The mode of changing the skin, or the frequency with which this
occurs in the larval state of the caddis flies has not been recorded.
The duration of life in this stage is usually considerable, extending
over several months: indeed in our climate many species pass the
winter in this stage, completing the metamorphosis in the following
spring or summer; and as one generation each year appears to be
the rule, it may be assumed that the larval condition in such cases
lasts from seven to ten months. During this stage the Insects are
chiefly vegetable feeders, some being said to feed on minute algae;
animal diet is not, however, entirely avoided, and it is said by Pictet
that not only do some of the Phryganeidae eat other Insects, but that
they also sometimes devour their companions.
Fig. 323.—A, Pupa of Phryganea pilosa. (After Pictet.) B, Mandibles of
pupa of Molanna angustata.
At the end of the larval period of existence the creature closes its
case by a light web spun at each end, taking care not to prevent the
ingress and egress of the water; it sometimes adds a stone or piece
of stick, and having thus protected itself, changes to a nymph.
During the first part of this metamorphosis the creature is completely
helpless, for there is so great a difference between the external
structures of the larva and nymph as to make the latter a new being,
so far as these organs are concerned. The changes take place in the
interior of the larval skin, and as they are completed this latter is
shed piecemeal. The resulting pupa or nymph greatly resembles the
perfect Insect, differing consequently very much from the larva.
Pictet, who paid special attention to the nymph condition of these
Insects, concludes, however, that many of the organs of the nymph
are actually formed within the corresponding parts of the larva, and
has given a figure that, if trustworthy, shows that the legs of the
nymph, notwithstanding the great difference between them as they
exist in the larva and in the perfect Insect, are actually formed within
the legs of the larva; each nymphal leg being rolled up in the skin of
the corresponding larval leg, in a spiral, compressed manner, and
the only articulations that can be detected in the leg being those of
the tarsus. The head of the nymph is armed in front with two curious
projections that are, in fact, enormously developed mandibles (Fig.
323, B); they serve as cutting implements to enable the nymph to
effect its escape from its prison; they are cast off with the nymph-
skin, the perfect Insect being thus destitute of these organs. The
abdomen of the nymph differs from that of the perfect Insect in
possessing external respiratory filaments; the nymphs of some
species have also the middle legs provided with swimming-hairs,
that do not exist in the imago.