The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, Volume 43The Society, 1895 - Entomology |
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abdomen abdominal segment antennæ apex band basal joints base blackish broad brown butterfly cell Cherra Punji Chevr cilia closely punctured colour Common convex costa coxæ Cuba cubital areolet dark Descr disc dorsal elongate elytra elytron Entomologist examples Fabr female femora ferruginous finely punctate flavous Forewing fulvous fuscous Genus grey greyish Guadeloupe Guen Hampson Happy Valley head hind Hindwing Hist Hong-Kong impunctate inner margin insect larva larvæ legs Length Lepidoptera Linn Lond male maxillary palpi median metathorax middle moderately Moore narrow nervure oblique ochreous outer margin pale palpi Papilio patch piceous posterior postmedial prothorax pubescence pupa radial areolet rounded rufous scutellum Shillong shining short sides slender slightly sparsely species specimens spots suffused surface suture Swinh Syst tarsi testaceous thorax tibiæ Trans transverse tubercles Type in B. M. underside vein Walker whitish wings Wlsm
Popular passages
Page 519 - Mr. Champion read a paper, entitled, "On the Heteromerous Coleoptera collected in Australia and Tasmania by Mr. JJ Walker, RN, during the voyage of HMS ' Penguin," with descriptions of new genera and species.
Page xlvi - He had therein traced the three tendencies alluded to on pages 342, 343, from the middle of the last century down to the present time...
Page 321 - ... tibiae unarmed , the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the...
Page v - ... in a brood ; but no record was wanted of monstrosities, or of such other characteristics as were clearly inconsistent with health and vigour. (2) Instances in which any one of the above peculiarities had appeared in the broods of different parents. In replying to this question, he said it would be hardly worth while to record the sudden appearance of either albinism or melanism, as both were well known to be of frequent occurrence.
Page 164 - Head black, closely furnished with long silvery hairs, punctured near the eyes ; antenna; not extending to the middle of the elytra, black, the lower five joints fulvous...
Page vi - Hampson said he believed that temperature had very little to do with the alteration of forms. At any rate, according to his experience, in India the wetseason form succeeded the dry-season form without any apparent difference in the temperature.
Page i - Frohawk said that he was glad to think that the subject of Seasonal Dimorphism, which had been first investigated systematically by Weismann, was receiving so much attention in this country. He was of opinion that the results hitherto arrived at were quite in harmony with Weismann's theory of reversion to the glacial form, and all the evidence recently accumulated by the excellent observations of Mr. Merrifield and others went to confirm this view as opposed to that of the direct action of temperature...
Page vii - Pascoe. Mr. Nelson Richardson called attention to a paper by himself, in the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, on the subject of Dorset Lepidoptera in 1892 and 1893.
Page xxiv - Triphaena comes, all very dark, the forewings almost black, the yellow of the hindwings of many of the specimens much obscured by blackish scales...
Page 318 - ... the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following two joints together, claws appendiculate, anterior coxal cavities closed, abdomen blackish.