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This case presents no difficulty on my view, for a hooked seed might be transported to an island by some other means; and the plant then becoming slightly modified, but still retaining its hooked seeds, would form an endemic species, having as useless an appendage as any rudimentary organ, for instance, as the shrivelled wings under the soldered elytra of many insular beetles.
Rose-beetles pass, in snoring flight, on every hand, the gold and emerald of their elytra gleaming; now and again one of them alights for a moment on the flowering head of a thistle; he seizes it carefully with the tips of his nervous, pointed fingers, seems to caress it, speaks to it, and then suddenly restores it to freedom. Wasps are pillaging the centauries.
Acclimatisation, difference of, in different races of men. Achetidae, stridulation of the; rudimentary stridulating organs in female. Acilius sulcatus, elytra of the female. Acomus, development of spurs in the female of. Acridiidae, stridulation of the; rudimentary stridulating organs in female. Acromio-basilar muscle, and quadrupedal gait. Acting. Actiniae, bright colours of.
The fore-limbs are folded and crossed on the breast, and are not employed in supporting the insect, which hangs in a reversed position, the back downwards. The triangular winglets, the sheaths of the elytra, open along their line of juncture and separate laterally; the two narrow blades, which contain the wings, rise in the centre of the interval and slightly diverge.
I can assure you that the greater part of the idiots in this part of the country are unaware that I have ever written a book at all I, the first man who ever described the true function of the elytra. I am glad to see you, sir, and I have no doubt that I can show you some specimens which will interest you."
As soon as some small animal approaches his hiding-place he throws himself on it impetuously, kills it, and devours it. Near his ditch he has hollowed a second of a much coarser character, the walls of which have not been smoothed with the same care. One here sees elytra and claws piled up; they are the hard and horny parts which he has not been able to eat.
The locust does not tear itself away from its sheath; it delicately insinuates itself out of it I had almost said flows. It is as though it were expelled by a gentle pressure. Let us return to the wings and elytra, which have made no apparent progress since their emergence from their sheaths. They are still mere stumps, with fine longitudinal seams; almost like little ropes'-ends.
Thorax with a slight keel down the middle, wrinkled behind of a dusky blueish green, a large patch of an orange colour on each side in front, and a small spot of the same colour on each edge of the produced part at base; elytra orange with numerous black spots, and black at the tip, lower wings pale orange at the base, clouded with black at the tip; abdomen orange, slightly ringed with green; legs orange, with three greenish spots on the outside of the femora of hind legs.
Elphinstone, Mr., on local difference of stature among the Hindoos; on the difficulty of distinguishing the native races of India. Elytra, of the females of Dytiscus Acilius, Hydroporus. Emberiza, characters of young. Emberiza miliaria. Emberiza schoeniclus, head-feathers of the male. Embryo of man; of the dog. Embryos of mammals, resemblance of the. Emigration.
Kirby and Spence, on sexual differences in the length of the snout in Curculionidae; on the courtship of insects; on the elytra of Dytiscus; on peculiarities in the legs of male insects; on the relative size of the sexes in insects; on the Fulgoridae; on the habits of the Termites; on difference of colour in the sexes of beetles; on the horns of the male lamellicorn beetles; on hornlike processes in male Curculionidae; on the pugnacity of the male stag-beetle.
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