The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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Page xvi
... Colours of Animals , can be adjusted to harmonise with changes in the environment or to correspond with the differences between the environment of different individuals . " The seasonal change of colour in northern animals is a well ...
... Colours of Animals , can be adjusted to harmonise with changes in the environment or to correspond with the differences between the environment of different individuals . " The seasonal change of colour in northern animals is a well ...
Page 243
... colour and markings by other families of 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 ...
... colour and markings by other families of 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 ...
Page 244
... colour of the insect imitated , are mimicked . I one day observed what appeared to be a hornet , with brown semi ... coloured like the hornet ( Priocnemis ) that it resembled . In its vibrating , coloured wing - cases it departed greatly ...
... colour of the insect imitated , are mimicked . I one day observed what appeared to be a hornet , with brown semi ... coloured like the hornet ( Priocnemis ) that it resembled . In its vibrating , coloured wing - cases it departed greatly ...
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