The Entomologist, Том 6

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Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1872

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Сторінка 559 - Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : • Here subterranean works and cities see, There towns aerial on the waving tree.
Сторінка 462 - This fluid, which is scarcely inferior to honey in sweetness, issues in limpid drops from the abdomen of these insects, not only by the ordinary passage, but also by two setiform tubes placed, one on each side, just above it. Their sucker being inserted in the...
Сторінка 55 - After the lapse of a fortnight many of these seeds, previously conveyed into the nests, had been brought out again, they having evidently commenced to germinate, and he then found that the radicle was gnawed off from each seed, so as to prevent further growth, and, this being effected, the seeds were carried back again. The cotyledons of germinated seeds were removed from the nests.
Сторінка 152 - The flood-tide set in about 3 pm with a geutle breeze, and then came a host of the above-named butterflies, with a few of Napi. There must have been hundreds arrive within a very short space of time ; but what surprised my friend and me was their alighting or settling on the sea with expanded wings, and the ease with which they rose again. We saw the same butterfly settle and rise again as many as four or five times, within a distance of less than a hundred yards, and with apparently as much ease...
Сторінка 276 - Notes on the Insects of the Scilly Isles, in: Entomologist. Vol. 6. 1872—3. p. 3—5. Notes on some Insects of Italy and of South France, observed between the middle of May and the middle of July, 1872. ibid. Vol.6. 1872—3. p.227— 230; 278-281 ; 303—308; 403—404.
Сторінка 143 - Entomological Nomenclature. — The undersigned, considering the confusion with which entomological nomenclature is threatened (and from which it is already to no small extent suffering) by the reinstatement of forgotten names to supersede those in universal employment, urge upon entomologists the desirability of ignoring the names so brought forward, until such time as the method of dealing with them shall be settled by a common agreement.
Сторінка 335 - Bombylius, the two valves of the proboscis serve no other purpose than to protect and guide the sucking tubes, but in the flies which devour pollen besides this function there is also that of grinding the pollen, for which they have special adaptations, for the margins of the two valves at the point of union are transversely dentate with fine and parallel bands of chitine. Probably the greater or less distance of these bands in different species is related to the different size of the pollen upon...
Сторінка 150 - We obtained these samples of milk from different parts of the country, and at different times of the year.
Сторінка 437 - I have just received from my lynx-eyed friend Herr H. Knecht, of the same city, he tells me that he can now get this species in any quantity at Basle. It is well known that this species of Anthribidae feeds in the larval state on raw coffee-berries ; hence its introduction and capture in commercial emporia on the coasts of different continents need cause little surprise ; but the two facts here recorded illustrate once more the indubitable axiom that insects living on merchandise are spread chiefly...
Сторінка 425 - I once bred a gonodacti/lus-like insect from a larva found feeding in a kind of gallery made in, or under the woolly under-side of a coltsfoot leaf, found growing on the limestone rocks at Llanferras, in June; the plant grows there in the streaks of pipe, or China clay, which crop out two hundred feet above the base of the rocks, on what we call the " Goat " or " ushworthii

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