Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Volume 10Washington Academy of Sciences., 1908 - Digital images |
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abdomen alutaceous Aneura angles right annulus antennæ antheridia apical basal angles base to apex bisinuate Body broadly rounded California Cambarus canthus cells closely punctate Coniontinæ Coniontis converging anteriorly convex coxæ crayfishes deep black densely punctate elongate elytra epipleuræ evenly feebly arcuate femora and abdomen Fimbriaria finely and sparsely finely but strongly Form fungus genus germinated glabrous gradually hepaticæ hind femora hypha hyphæ infected legs Length less sparsely liverworts lobes longer than wide marginal bead medially minutely muricate narrower narrowly rounded nearly similar oblique oblong oblong-oval obtuse ogival one-half longer one-half wider plants posterior posteriorly pronotum prosternal process prosternum prothorax punc reflexed remotely punctate rhizoids Riccia rounded and converging rugose scutellum scutellum moderate setæ shining sides parallel sinuate sinus moderately slightly somite sparsely punctate species spores strongly converging subevenly suture tarsi thallus three-fifths as wide throughout tibiæ transverse triangular two-fifths two-thirds as wide wider than long width
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Page 158 - Body broadly oblong-elliptical, moderately convex, piceous-black, the surface polished ; epistoma broadly sinuate ; antennae with a 3 -jointed club ; prothorax equal in width to the elytra, a little more than twice as wide as its median length, widest immediately before the base, the sides rather feebly arcuate and strongly convergent, moderately densely, evenly punctate throughout ; elytra twice as long as the median line of the prothorax, not longer than wide, equally densely but more finely punctate...
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Page 221 - Cambridge, and, among numerous others, the degree of LL. D. from the universities of Harvard, Princeton, Michigan, and Wisconsin. He was awarded the Henry Draper Medal by the National Academy of Sciences, the Rumford Medal by the Royal Society of London, and the Rumford Medal by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Janssen Medal from the Institute of France, and the medal of the Astronomical Society of France. He was a foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, a Correspondent...
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Page 64 - Busattus secutus in the completely impunctate integuments and probably in several other characters, which must remain unknown to me for the present, in the absence of typical examples. The type and only described species is the following : — Body oval, convex, black, subopaque above and beneath, less rounded in outline than in Discodemus, with the sides of the elytra almost straight from the base to beyond the middle and nearly parallel ; upper surface entirely without sculpture; elytra slightly...