Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Band 18Society, 1850 |
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... edge elongated at the tip : head , thorax , scutellum , abdomen and legs pitchy black ; head , tho- rax and scutellum thickly punctured ; elytra thickly and finely punc- tured , the punctures of the base coarser ; elytra wide , shorter ...
... edge elongated at the tip : head , thorax , scutellum , abdomen and legs pitchy black ; head , tho- rax and scutellum thickly punctured ; elytra thickly and finely punc- tured , the punctures of the base coarser ; elytra wide , shorter ...
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... edge , which are green . This species seems to link the three genera Pyrodes , Mallaspis , and Solenoptera ; it agrees in most particulars with Pyrodes . PYRODES SMITHIANUS . Scutellum considerably elongated at the point and notched at ...
... edge , which are green . This species seems to link the three genera Pyrodes , Mallaspis , and Solenoptera ; it agrees in most particulars with Pyrodes . PYRODES SMITHIANUS . Scutellum considerably elongated at the point and notched at ...
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... edge and the suture , widest toward the suture ; another transverse black band just behind the middle , and neither touching the edge nor the suture , narrower than the first band , and , like it , waved both in front and behind . Hab ...
... edge and the suture , widest toward the suture ; another transverse black band just behind the middle , and neither touching the edge nor the suture , narrower than the first band , and , like it , waved both in front and behind . Hab ...
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... edge the coast , some distance from the sea . I have named this species Heros , as being finest of the genus , and in commemoration of the enterprise and heroic conduct under great hardship of its discoverer . 2. REMARKS ON THE ...
... edge the coast , some distance from the sea . I have named this species Heros , as being finest of the genus , and in commemoration of the enterprise and heroic conduct under great hardship of its discoverer . 2. REMARKS ON THE ...
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... edge entire ; muscle of attachment crescentic , open in front ; foot with a lateral membrane . Operculum rudimen- tary or none . Shell imperforate , with a crescentic muscular impres- sion , open in front . The family Stomatellida ...
... edge entire ; muscle of attachment crescentic , open in front ; foot with a lateral membrane . Operculum rudimen- tary or none . Shell imperforate , with a crescentic muscular impres- sion , open in front . The family Stomatellida ...
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Adams adenota Africa albá albidá anfractibus anfractu ultimo angulatis animal anticè Antilope aperture base basim belly bird blackish bone Brit British Museum brown Buffon CEPHALOPHUS Cervus characters CHEILODACTYLUS colour columellá Cuming Cuvier CYLLENE dark Deer diam distinct dorsal edge elongated elytra female front Gazella genera genus Gray grey H. C. Mus hair head hoofs horns impressis inch incisors infernè Inhabits intus island Knowsley Knowsley Menag labro lævi legs length Licht lineis Linn longitudinaliter longitudinally male margin MELANIA muffle nearly nose Ogilby operculum orbit Oreotragus outer lip ovatá pale paler Philippines posterior posticè remarkable ridge rounded rump Rüppell SCARABUS Senegal shell side Siquijor skull Smith species specimens spines spirá spire spot streak striæ striated suborbital Sundev Sundevall supernè surface suturis tail tear-bag tenui testá throat Tragelaphus transverse tuft umbilicus upper valdè whitish whorls wing yellowish Zool Zoological
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Seite 264 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Seite 209 - Notice of the discovery by Mr. Walter Mantell in the Middle •Island of New Zealand of a living specimen of the Notornis Mantelli, a Bird of the Rail family allied to Brachypteryx, and hitherto unknown to Naturalists except in a fossil state.
Seite 265 - The head and body of the poor animal swelled up in a most distressing manner before he died; his eyes were so swollen that he could not see, and in darkness he neighed for his comrades who stood feeding beside him.
Seite 263 - ... to the certain destruction of the creature. Even the elephant and rhinoceros, who, by reason of their enormous bulk, and the vast quantity of food and water they daily need, cannot shift to desert and dry places as the season may require, are obliged to roll themselves in mud or mire, which, when dry, coats them over like armour, and enables them to stand their ground against this winged assassin...
Seite 266 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of hig Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. Svo. 42s. GUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Seite 211 - Upon comparing the head of the bird with the fossil crania and mandibles, my son was at once convinced of the specific identity of the recent and fossil specimens ; and so delighted was he by the discovery of a living example of one of the supposed extinct contemporaries of the Moa, that he wrote to me and stated that the skull and beaks were alike in...
Seite 210 - Notornis, which their dogs instantly pursued, and after a long chase caught alive in the gully of a sound behind Resolution Island. It ran with great speed, and upon being captured uttered loud screams, and fought and struggled violently ; it was kept alive three or four days on board the schooner and then killed, and the body roasted and ate by the crew, each partaking of the dainty, which was declared to be delicious.
Seite 36 - S. testd suborbiculari; spird acuminatd, albd, radiis pallidis longitudinalibus picld, transversim liratd, inlerstitiis decussate striatis ; aperturd transversd, subovali, intns porcelland, labio subrecto, calloso. Hab. ad Insulam Lord Hood, dedicav. (Mus. Cuming.) A species somewhat resembling in colouring the striped variety of S. notata, but which differs materially in form and sculpture. MICROTIS, new genus. Animal as in Stomatia, but the foot with a deep anterior fissure for the head, and the...
Seite 264 - Israelites, was a land of pasture which was not tilled or sown, because it was not overflowed by the Nile. But the land overflowed by the Nile, was the black earth of the valley of Egypt, and it was here that God confined the flies ; for, he says, it shall be a sign of this separation of the people, which he had then made, that not one fly should be seen in the sand, or...
Seite 212 - Porphyrio, it doubtless enjoys the power of swimming, but would seem, from the structure of tts legs, to be more terrestrial in its habits than the members of that genus. I have carefully compared the bill of this example with that figured by Professor Owen under the name of Notornis Mantelli, and have little doubt that they are referable to one and the same species...