The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 51. köideThe Society, 1904 |
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5th stage abdomen antennæ ANTHELA anticis apex apical Artaxa band bark Barrackpore basal base betularia bidentata black twigs brown Butl Butler Butleria butterflies Cauquenes cell CHARLES SWINHOE Chile Chillan closely punctured clypeus colour costa coxæ dark darker DASYCHIRA DEILEMERA discal distinct distinctly dorsal elytra environment EUPROCTIS Expanse of wings Fabr female femora flavous fore-wings fulvous genus green grey hairs hind-wings Hmpsn hybernation Hymenoptera impunctate including the type insect joints June Khasia Hills larva larvæ legs Lepidoptera LEUCOMA lichen lichen-covered sticks Linn Lond Lymantria male mature mesonotum middle Moore Moths nearly nervure Nilgiri Hills Nyctemera ocellus ochreous outer margin Oxon pale palpi patches Piedr Plate PORTHESIA posterior pubescence quercifolia Quillota Rare Re-fed scutellum sides skin species specimens spots strongly Swinhoe tarsi testaceous thorax tibiæ Trans transverse under-side veins Walker white markings xxxii yellow
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Page cliv - President, two or more Vice-Presidents, Honorary Treasurer, Secretary, and not more than twenty-one elected Members of the Society.
Page lxxii - Thus, however regarded, the hypothesis of special creations turns out to be worthless — worthless by its derivation; worthless in its intrinsic incoherence ; worthless as absolutely without evidence ; worthless as not supplying an intellectual need; worthless as not satisfying a moral want. We must therefore consider it as counting for nothing, in opposition to any other hypothesis respecting the origin of organic beings.
Page lxxvi - But as an honest man, I must tell you that I have come to the heterodox conclusion, that there are no such things as independently created species — that species are only strongly defined varieties.
Page lxxiii - After describing a set of forms as distinct species, tearing up my MS., and making them one species, tearing that up and making them separate, and then making them one again (which has happened to me), I have gnashed my teeth, cursed species, and asked what sin I had committed to be * In
Page 27 - ... tibiae unarmed , the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the...
Page lxii - Systematists will be able to pursue their labours as at present; but they will not be incessantly haunted by the shadowy doubt whether this or that form be a true species.
Page clii - TELFORD and such others of our loving subjects as have formed themselves into, and are now members of, the said Society, or who shall at any time hereafter become members thereof, according to such...
Page lxii - Systematists witt have only to decide (not that this witt be easy) whether any form be sufficiently constant and distinct from other forms to be capable of definition, and if definable, whether the differences be sufficiently important to deserve a specific name.
Page cli - VICTORIA, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith; to all to whom these presents shall come greeting...
Page lxii - In short, we shall have to treat species in the same manner as those naturalists treat genera, who admit that genera are merely artificial combinations made for convenience. This may not be a cheering prospect...