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The most powerful of them, the Sacred Beetle and the Pimelia, are easy-going creatures which, so far from molesting him, are fine booty for his burrow. Can he be threatened by the birds? It is very doubtful. As a Carabus, he is saturated with acrid humours which must make his body a far from pleasing mouthful.
Pigs, origin of the improved breeds of; numerical proportion of the sexes in; stripes of young; tusks of miocene; sexual preference shewn by. Pike, American, brilliant colours of the male, during the breeding season. Pike, reasoning powers of; male, devoured by females. Pike, L.O., on the psychical elements of religion. Pimelia striata, sounds produced by the female. Pinel, hairiness in idiots.
His long trails on the sand tell us of nocturnal rounds in search of big game, often the Pimelia, sometimes the Half-spotted Scarab. The find is not consumed on the spot. To enjoy it at his ease, he needs the peaceful darkness of the underground manor; and so the captive, seized by one leg with the pincers, is forcibly dragged along the ground. The Sacred Beetle and Others: chaps. ii. and vii.
Odonestis potatoria, sexual difference of colour in. Odour, correlation of, with colour of skin; of moths; emitted by snakes in the breeding season; of mammals. Oecanthus nivalis, difference of colour in the sexes of. Oecanthus pellucidus. Ogle, Dr. W., relation between colour and power of smell. Oidemia. Oliver, on sounds produced by Pimelia striata. Omaloplia brunnea, stridulation of.
Tragic events took place in the box during the journey from Cette to Sérignan. The Scarites gormandized riotously on the peaceable Pimeliæ. Their tracks, which I followed long ago on the actual spot, bore evidence to their nocturnal rounds, apparently in search of their prey, the pot-bellied Pimelia, whose sole defence consists of a strong armour of welded wing-cases.
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