The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 2. köideHarper and Brothers, 1876 |
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... European Trichius . The non - peculiar genera are , Stethodesma , of which half the species are African and half tropical American ; and Euphoria , confined to America both North and South . Buprestida . In this fine group the ...
... European Trichius . The non - peculiar genera are , Stethodesma , of which half the species are African and half tropical American ; and Euphoria , confined to America both North and South . Buprestida . In this fine group the ...
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... South America , North America , and Europe ; Phaa is wholly Neo- tropical , except two species in the Philippine Islands . General Conclusions as to the Neotropical Insect - fauna.- Looking at the insects of the Neotropical region as a ...
... South America , North America , and Europe ; Phaa is wholly Neo- tropical , except two species in the Philippine Islands . General Conclusions as to the Neotropical Insect - fauna.- Looking at the insects of the Neotropical region as a ...
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... South American . Cetoniida . These seem very scarce , only a few species of ... South Temperate America , and 5 of these are peculiar to it ; 3 others are South ... Europe , and Mexico . The Cerambycidæ are much more abundant , and their ...
... South American . Cetoniida . These seem very scarce , only a few species of ... South Temperate America , and 5 of these are peculiar to it ; 3 others are South ... Europe , and Mexico . The Cerambycidæ are much more abundant , and their ...
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... Europe , and , owing to the long continuance of the generic types of insects , would remain little modified till now ... South America ; and a large number of characteristic European forms . The Lucanidæ are all of European types . The region ...
... Europe , and , owing to the long continuance of the generic types of insects , would remain little modified till now ... South America ; and a large number of characteristic European forms . The Lucanidæ are all of European types . The region ...
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... Europe than they are now in the tropics , but we also find that the apes of West Africa and Malaya , the lemurs of Mada- gascar , the Edentata of Africa and South America , and the Marsupials of America and Australia , were all ...
... Europe than they are now in the tropics , but we also find that the apes of West Africa and Malaya , the lemurs of Mada- gascar , the Edentata of Africa and South America , and the Marsupials of America and Australia , were all ...
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