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Gunther's 'Record of Zoological Literature, 1867, p. 260. On the excess of female Lucanus, ibid, p. 250. On the males of Lucanus in England, Westwood, 'Modern Classification of Insects, vol. i. p. 187. Mr. Janson stated at the Entomological Society that the females of the bark feeding Tomicus villosus are so common as to be a plague, whilst the males are so rare as to be hardly known.
Toads, male, treatment of ova by some; male, ready to breed before the female. Todas, infanticide and proportion of sexes; practice polyandry; choice of husbands amongst. Toe, great, condition of, in the human embryo. Tomicus villosus, proportion of the sexes in. Tomtit, blue, sexual difference of colour in the. Tonga Islands, beardlessness of the natives of. Tooke, Horne, on language.
"I remember hearing once," he said, "that over twenty-two thousand acres of spruce in Bohemia were wiped out in a month by the Tomicus beetle." "This is the work of a Tomicus," said McGinnis. "And what such a critter as that was ever made for gets me." "What's going to be done?" asked Wilbur. McGinnis pointed to the house whence the Supervisor was just coming out.
Cylindrical bark-borers, which are little, round, weevil-like beetles, are now flying about fruit trees, to lay their eggs in the bark. Associated with the Pissodes, we may find in April the galleries of Tomicus pini, branching out from a common centre. They are filled up with fine sawdust, and, according to Dr.
Jaguars, black. Janson, E.W., on the proportions of the sexes in Tomicus villosus; on stridulant beetles. Japan, encouragement of licentiousness in. Japanese, general beardlessness of the; aversion of the, to whiskers. Jardine, Sir W., on the Argus pheasant. Jarrold, Dr., on modifications of the skull induced by unnatural position. Jarves, Mr., on infanticide in the Sandwich Islands.
Fitch, are notched in the sides "in which the eggs have been placed, where they would remain undisturbed by the beetle as it crawled backwards and forth through the gallery." Another Tomicus, more dangerous than the preceding, feeds exclusively in the sap-wood, running solitary galleries for a distance of two inches towards the centre of the tree.
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