Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 26. köideSmithsonian Institution Press, 1903 |
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abdomen adult ALCOCK anal angle Anomura antennæ basal base Bleeker body broad carapace caudal peduncle chelipeds color Comp compressed coxæ cross veins Crust dark brown distal dorsal fin edge elongate fathoms Fauna female femora Fish fissure fore wing front genus Gill-openings head Hesperornis hind wing Hist interorbital space Islands Japan Japonica Lake Biwa lateral line legs length Linnæus lobe lower male margin maxillary maxillipeds median merus mesothorax metathorax middle MILNE-EDWARDS mouth Müller and Henle Munida MUNIDOPSIS Nagasaki nearly ocelli opercle outer pair pale pectoral Plate posterior Proc prothorax Pulo rays rostrum scales Scudder segment Shell short side Simalur slender slightly species specimens spines spiracles stout surface tail Tapanuli Tapanuli Bay teeth thorax Thrips tibiæ tip of snout Tuangku U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM upper ventrals Venus vertebræ Wakanoura width yellow Yodo River Zool
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Page iii - Since 1902 the volumes of the series known as "Contributions from the National Herbarium," and containing papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum, have been published as bulletins.
Page 826 - The anterior margin of the dorsal fin is equi-distant between the tip of the snout and the base of the caudal...
Page 881 - Southern walkingstick is made from a series of both sexes in the collection of the United States National Museum. Color varying shades of yellowish brown, often almost fuscous, with conspicuous broad, black stripes extending from the front of the head to the tip of the abdomen, one dorsal and one on each side. These stripes, in dark-colored individuals, are often more or less confused, but in light-colored specimens they are very conspicuous and well denned.
Page iii - Bulletins. The Proceedings, the first volume of which was issued in 1878, are intended primarily as a medium for the publication of original, and usually brief, papers based on the collections of the National Museum, presenting...
Page 527 - Dorsal rays about 25. b. Lateral line not forming a black keel on caudal peduncle. Posterior dorsal rays produced to form a rounded lobe as high or nearly as high as produced anterior lobe, these rays longest in the young.
Page 669 - Lateral line simple on the body, but forking anteriorly, forming several series of mucous tubes on the head. Male with a club-shaped, cartilaginous hook on the head above the snout; this hook is curved forward and downward, and is armed at its tip with decurved spines, its tip fitting into a depression in front of the eyes; females without this appendage.
Page 656 - ... snout; tail variously formed, usually whip-like, sometimes short and stout, sometimes bearing a single dorsal or caudal fin, but never with two dorsals; usually one or more vertical folds of skin on the tail, rarely a lateral fold. Tail generally armed with a large, sharp, retrorsely serrate spine on its upper surface toward the base; 2 or 3 spines occasionally present.
Page 662 - Disk much broader than long, its anterior margins meeting in a very obtuse angle, its outer angles more or less acute, the form, therefore, transversely rhombic. Tail very short and slender, shorter than the disk, without fin, armed with a very small serrated spine, which is often wanting.
Page 903 - Four anterior vertebrse coossified, and with ossicula auditus. No mesopterygium. Basis cranii and pterotic bone simple ; no coronoid bone. Third superior pharyngeal bone wanting, or small and resting on the fourth ; second directed backwards. One or two pairs of basal brauchihyals ; two pairs branchihyals.
Page 846 - Fins all strong and well developed; origin of dorsal midway between tip of snout and base of caudal...