The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, 9. köideCharles Knight, 1838 |
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... colour , and the body is of the same tint . The head and thorax are black and the wings are clouded with brown . But little is known of the habits of these insects . Lieut.- Colonel W. H. Sykes , who collected great numbers of the above ...
... colour , and the body is of the same tint . The head and thorax are black and the wings are clouded with brown . But little is known of the habits of these insects . Lieut.- Colonel W. H. Sykes , who collected great numbers of the above ...
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... colour varies from emerald to blackish green ; its lustre is vitreous ; it is translucent , and sometimes transparent ; it is suffi- ciently hard to scratch glass , though but feebly ; it is brittle ; specific gravity 3.278 ; the streak ...
... colour varies from emerald to blackish green ; its lustre is vitreous ; it is translucent , and sometimes transparent ; it is suffi- ciently hard to scratch glass , though but feebly ; it is brittle ; specific gravity 3.278 ; the streak ...
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... coloured plates , commenced by the same botanist , and now nearly completed under the direction of Professor Lindley ... colour of these insects , and we understand that they are found on flowers . Diphucephala sericea ( Kirby ) is ...
... coloured plates , commenced by the same botanist , and now nearly completed under the direction of Professor Lindley ... colour of these insects , and we understand that they are found on flowers . Diphucephala sericea ( Kirby ) is ...
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... colour applied against it , and besides of a sort of aeriferous bladder situated behind . At the lower root of the stomachal swelling is the ovary , formed by a mass of granules , and which seems to prolong itself backwards into a long ...
... colour applied against it , and besides of a sort of aeriferous bladder situated behind . At the lower root of the stomachal swelling is the ovary , formed by a mass of granules , and which seems to prolong itself backwards into a long ...
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... colour ( d'un rouge lie subgenera only among the Diphyes , the first consisting of de vin ) , and then there are found a certain number of indi- those in which the cartilaginous scales of the cirrhigerous viduals which have the ...
... colour ( d'un rouge lie subgenera only among the Diphyes , the first consisting of de vin ) , and then there are found a certain number of indi- those in which the cartilaginous scales of the cirrhigerous viduals which have the ...
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