Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society, Bände 7-9

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Seite 103 - I have been able to devote comparatively little study, is rather summary, but every attempt to attain 1 Contributions from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Harvard University. No.
Seite 22 - ... joints 3, 4 and 5 form a more or less distinct, elongate club, beset with long bristles. Hairs of the wings arranged in about fifteen lines. Abdomen not so wide as the thorax, but as long as the head and thorax together ; in the 9 the sides subparallel, and the apical joint suddenly narrowed to a point.
Seite 51 - Catalogue of the Cabinet of Natural History of the State of New York " and says: The regents of the University deserve great credit for directing the publication of this catalogue. Nothing is better adapted to secure permanently the interest for public collections and to contribute to their increase than the circulation of such catalogues. We only regret that no more direct reference is made to the individual specimens described and figured in the Natural History of New York. The importance of preserving...
Seite 51 - In 1860 Spencer F. Baird, then assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, said in the annual report of that year: The great value of the museum of the Institution at the present time consists in its being the depository of so many type specimens, or those upon which the first description of species has been established. These constitute the great attraction to the scientific investigators, as, however carefully prepared, the published description or figures of any species may be, there is...
Seite 106 - ... twice as far from the humeral cross-vein as from the tip of the third ; tip of second vein slightly but distinctly nearer to the tip of the third than to the first.
Seite 140 - I. |=12). Color above brown, grizzled, and annulated with black in a vermicular pattern; darkest anteriorly, and most grizzled and vermiculated posteriorly. Nape and sides of neck silver gray; this color prolonged backward above the shoulder in the form of stripes which are sometimes faintly traceable to the root of the tail, though usually ending about the middle of the body. Ears black outside, grayish or faintly rusty inside, and along posterior border. Top of head bister, slightly dusky above...
Seite 159 - When any stage in the life history is named before the animal itself ; c) When the two sexes of an animal have been considered as distinct species or even as belonging to distinct genera; d) When an animal represents a regular succession...
Seite 22 - Chalci<1id<r," pt. vi., p. 105, employing Forster's character, says the antennte are 8-jointed ; but an examination of the figure of the type Trichogramma ccanesccns, 1. c., p. 114) shows that one of the joints counted is the "annulus" above the scape, which I do not consider to be a true joint, and that what I have indicated as the apical joint, in agreement with Westwood. is represented in that figure as three coalesced joints. I have proposed the generic name of Pentarthrum for minuta in MS. now...
Seite 22 - Head wider than the thorax ; antennae 5-jointed, joints 3 and 4 in the 9 forming an ovate mass and together shorter than joint 2 ; joint 5 large, thickened and very obliquely truncate ; in the $ joints 3, 4 and 5 form a more or less distinct, elongate club, beset with long bristles.
Seite 80 - ... established, would overthrow Mr. Mill's sensationalism and all the modern philosophy of experience. That the existence of true instinct may be established in other cases is not impossible ; but in the particular instance of birds' nests, which is usually considered one of its strongholds, I cannot find a particle of evidence to show the existence of anything beyond those lower reasoning and imitative powers which animals are universally admitted to possess.

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