The Entomologist, Volumen28

Portada
Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1895
 

Contenido


Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 68 - ... tibiae unarmed ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following two joints together ; anterior coxal cavities closed.
Página ii - ... more important and interesting subject for study than one more species added to the infinitude of already recorded species. Our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies; and will then truly give what may be called the plan of creation. The rules for classifying will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and trace the many diverging lines of descent in our natural...
Página 228 - Yet a crane-fly (Tipula) will leave half its legs in the hands of an unlucky boy who has endeavoured to catch it, and will fly here and there with as much agility and unconcern as if nothing had happened to it ; and an insect impaled upon a pin will often devour its prey with as much avidity as when at liberty. Were a giant eviscerated, his body divided in the middle, or his head cut off, it would be all over with him ; he would move no more ; he would be dead to the calls of hunger ; or the emotions...
Página ii - Our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies; and will then truly give what may be called the plan of creation. The rules for classifying will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and trace the many diverging lines of descent in our natural genealogies, by characters of any kind which have long been inherited. Rudimentary organs...
Página 64 - States, and called attention to the " assembling " habits of the male, some hundreds of which were attracted by the numerous females which emerged from the cocoons at sunset. Mr. BA Bower exhibited a beautiful variety of...
Página ii - The rules for classifying will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees or armorial bearings ; and we have to discover and trace the many diverging lines of descent in our natural genealogies, by characters of any kind which have long been inherited. Rudimentary organs will speak infallibly with respect to the nature of long-lost structures. Species and groups of species which are called aberrant, and which may fancifully be called living fossils, will...
Página 27 - His genial manner and amiable disposition endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, and he...
Página 136 - He added that all the larvae went down by the end of July. The first emergence took place on August 20th, and they continued coming out at the rate of about five a day, through the rest of that month and September ; only five emerged in October, and the last one appeared on November llth. Mr. Nevinson said that not one larva was ichneumoned, and only three or four imagines were crippled. Mr.
Página 184 - ... connection with Mr. Merrifield's paper Mr. FW Frohawk exhibited a series of 200 specimens of V. c-album bred from one female taken in Herefordshire, in April, 1894. The series consisted of 105 males and 95 females, and included 41 specimens of the light form and 159 of the dark form. Professor Meldola, in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Merrifield, Dr. Dixey, and Mr. Frohawk, said that...
Página 136 - Still the impressions of those who have paid attention to particular groups of insects are even now of some importance, though at present based on incomplete knowledge. He thought the Rhopalocera would prove to be a somewhat exceptional group in their distribution. Notwithstanding that Australia and New Zealand are so poor in them this was by no means the case with their Coleoptera, Australia being very rich, and its fauna of Coleoptera being very distinct. He thought that if Lepidoptera generally...

Información bibliográfica