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... beetles , and ants -Plants and trees - Timber - Monkey attacked by eagle - White- faced monkey - Anecdotes of a tame ... beetles flop down on the table . In this way I made my first acquaintance with many entomological rarities.1 1 In ...
... beetles , and ants -Plants and trees - Timber - Monkey attacked by eagle - White- faced monkey - Anecdotes of a tame ... beetles flop down on the table . In this way I made my first acquaintance with many entomological rarities.1 1 In ...
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... beetles , and as I had brought a lantern with me , I stayed to examine them whilst Velasquez rode on to get some food ready . At night many species of beetles , especially longicorns , are to be found running over the trunks , that lie ...
... beetles , and as I had brought a lantern with me , I stayed to examine them whilst Velasquez rode on to get some food ready . At night many species of beetles , especially longicorns , are to be found running over the trunks , that lie ...
Page 243
... beetles , but also in this peculiar widening of the elytra . Besides this , the Calopteron when walking on a leaf raises and depresses its wing cases , and I observed exactly the same movement in a longicorn beetle ( Evander nobilis ...
... beetles , but also in this peculiar widening of the elytra . Besides this , the Calopteron when walking on a leaf raises and depresses its wing cases , and I observed exactly the same movement in a longicorn beetle ( Evander nobilis ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
Commence journey up San Juan riverPalms and wild canes | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
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