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The rain has washed the ground away from under its off legs, so that it tilts; and there were quantities of large longicorn beetles about during the night the sort with spiny backs; they kept on getting themselves hitched on to my blankets and when I wanted civilly to remove them they made a horrid fizzing noise and showed fight cocking their horns in a defiant way.
I circled a small bush at my side, and found that the sound came from one of the branches near the top; so with my glasses I began a systematic search." This was as far as I ever got, for a flock of parrakeets exploded close at hand and blew the lesser sound out of mind. If I had stopped to guess I would probably have considered the author a longicorn beetle or some fiddling orthopter.
The beetles furnish us with many species of large size, and of the most brilliant metallic lustre, among which the Tmesisternus mirabilis, a longicorn beetle of a golden green colour; the excessively brilliant rose-chafers, Lomaptera wallacei and Anacamptorhina fulgida; one of the handsomest of the Buprestidae, Calodema wallacei; and several fine blue weevils of the genus Eupholus, are perhaps the most conspicuous.
It was concretionary, and I learnt from him that it occurred in veins. I was vexed about the time we had lost, and the extra work we had given the poor mules; my only consolation was that as we rode back I picked a fine new longicorn beetle off the leaves of an overhanging tree.
Longicorn beetles, difference of the sexes of, in colour; stridulation of. Lonsdale, Mr., on an example of personal attachment in Helix pomatia. Lophobranchii, marsupial receptacles of the male. Lophophorus, habits of. Lophorina atra, sexual difference in coloration of. Lophornis ornatus. Lord, J.K., on Salmo lycaodon. Lory, King; immature plumage of the. Lory, king, constancy of.
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