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abdomen affinis anal anal fin antennis base beneath bill black spots blackish body Brit British Museum broad carpus central chin compressed conical convex cross bands Daboia Daud dorsal fin edge elongate elytris elytrisque eyes feathers flavis frontal fuscous Galleruca genus Gray groove head head-shields hinder inches Inhab Inhabits India Inhabits North coast J. E. GRAY keeled keeled scales labial plates labial shields Length lines Long longitudinal loreal maculis margin Merrem middle narrow neck nervure Niger Nigra nigris nigro nostrils notatis olive outer ovate pale brown paler pectoral fin pedibusque Porcellana Port Essington posterior ocular posterior wings Pręcedenti quills rounded Schlegel scutellum Scytale Serp short side slightly species spine streak subcaudal Subcaudal plates superciliary tail tarsus teeth testaceis thorace toes transverse triangular tubercles upper labial upper labial shields ventral shields viridis Wagler white spots whitish wing coverts yellow yellowish Zool
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Page 63 - Upper jaw shortest ; teeth small, in several series, velvet like ; head short, conical ; upper jaw rather the shortest : brown, in spirits, with small, differently placed, short black lines : face with 3 pores on each side just above the upper lip, and 4 pores in a short arched line just above the tubular nostrils ; chin with a series of 7 pores on each side near the edge, becoming wider apart behind ; lateral line formed of rather distant tubular pores, the line is slightly bent upon the pectoral...
Page 62 - ... scales. An oblique ridge of larger scales on each side of the base of the tail, and a few shorter longitudinal ridges of rather smaller ones on each side of the upper part of the tail.
Page 62 - ... toes moderate ; tail with a transverse series of compressed scales at each side of the base. Green Lizard of the colonists. Kakariki of the natives. Very beautiful varieties of this lizard are sometimes met with. A specimen, in the collection of the British Museum, has " a streak along the under lip, the ears, two arched stripes on the top of the head, irregular shaped spots on each side of the back and hind legs, an interrupted streak along each side of the body and tail, white, with a narrow...
Page 62 - Zool. Misc. 72. Head quadrangular, covered with small scales; throat with a cross fold; nape and back with a crest of compressed spines; body covered with small scales, belly and under side of the tail with large squarish keelless flat scales placed in cross series; tail compressed, triangular, covered with small scales, and with a ridge of large compressed spines; legs strong; toes 5. 5., short, strong, cylindrical, slightly webbed at their base, covered above and below with small scales; claws...
Page 53 - Darnley Islands. B. Head covered with scales, like the body ; nostrils surrounded by a small, continuous ring ; eyes surrounded by a series of small scales ; labial shields small, with a larger series above them ; pupil round ; ventral shields very small, scale-like, separated on each side of a keeled ridge. The species are all inhabitants of rivers.
Page 69 - ... tail is of one piece, as in Nephrops, and has the spine removed further back from the much-rounded extremity : the first pair of legs is rather more slender than in Nephrops ; the claws inside are nearly straight, and furnished with moderatesized teeth ; the hands are but slightly grooved, and have a few rows of spines, largest on the inside : the second pair of legs is the shortest of the four hind pair (while in Nephrops the fifth are so), the second are the longest, the fourth and fifth being...
Page 47 - Rlue in spirits; underside of body and limbs bluish white; the lips, chin and a streak from under the eye, beneath the tympanum and along the side of the body to the groin, pure white; back smooth; belly and thighs granular: the fore toes scarcely webbed, the hinder ones webbed to the end; the toe disks small: tympanum distinct. Agrees with the variety of Hyla Jacksoniensis in the disposition of the colours. Inhabits north coast of Australia; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. Description of No.
Page 68 - WHITE, A., 1842. Description of an orthopterous insect, and two new species of Crustacea. from New Zealand: in the collection of the British Museum.
Page 63 - Upper jaw shortest; teeth small, in several series, velvet like; head short, conical; upper jaw rather the shortest: brown, in spirits, with small, differently placed, short black lines: face with 3 pores on each side just above the upper lip, and 4 pores in a short arched line just above the tubular nostrils; chin with a series of 1 pores on each side near the edge, becoming wider apart behind; lateral line formed of rather distant tubular pores, the line is slightly bent upon the pectoral; the...
Page 38 - The wingless viviparous female is rather a long oval in form, of a greenish-gray color, with a series of black spots on each side of the back, becoming larger in size toward the tip. This coloration is usually obscured by the whitish, mealy or waxy secretion which covers the body of these insects. The antennae are green, with black tips, and the eyes and legs are black.