 | 1880 - 1118 lehte
...of a shrivelled leaf. We thus have size, colour, form, markings, and habits, all combining together to produce a disguise which may be said to be absolutely perfect ; and the protection which it affords is sufficiently indicated by the abundance of the individuals... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1873 - 526 lehte
...leaf; the wings give exactly thet perspective effect of a shrivelled leaf, and we have size, color, form, markings, and habits, all combining to produce...disguise which may be said to be absolutely perfect? and yet nobody believes them to be leaves or the lineal descendants of leaves ; no more should we believe,... | |
 | 1867 - 850 lehte
...of a shrivelled leaf* We thus have size, colour, form, markings, and habits, all combining together to produce a disguise which may be said to be absolutely perfect; and the protection which it affords is sufficiently indicated by the abundance of the individuals that... | |
 | 1871 - 578 lehte
...his illustrations. There is a beetle which is found only on a rough-barked tree on the Amazon, which so exactly resembles the bark that, until it moves,...some of which are a foot long and as thick as the finger, in which the arrangement of the parts is such as to render them absolutely identical in appearance... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 lehte
...of a shrivelled leaf. We thus have size, colour, form, markings, and habits, all combining together to produce a disguise which may be said to be absolutely perfect; and the protection which it affords is sufficiently indicated by the abundance of the individuals that... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 338 lehte
...of a shrivelled leaf. We thus have size, color, form, markings, and habits, all combining together to produce a disguise which may be said to be absolutely perfect ; and the protection which it affords is sufficiently indicated by the abundance of the individuals... | |
 | 1871 - 812 lehte
...almost sure to escape detection. " We thus have size, color, form and habits all combining together to produce a disguise which may be said to be absolutely perfect." In the same manner numerous instances are given of similar resemblances occurring between animals in... | |
 | 1871 - 804 lehte
...almost sure to escape detection. " We thus have size, color, form and habits all combining together to produce a disguise which may be said to be absolutely perfect." In the same manner numerous instances are given of similar resemblances occurring between animals in... | |
 | 1871 - 806 lehte
...almost sure to escape detection. " We thus have size, color, form and habits all combining together to produce a disguise which may be said to be absolutely perfect." In the same manner numerous instances are given of similar resemblances occurring between animals in... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 296 lehte
...the perspective effect of a shrivelled leaf — size, colour, form, markings, and habits all combine to produce a disguise which may be said to be absolutely perfect ; and the protection which it affords is sufficiently indicated by the abundance of the individuals... | |
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... stalk to the leaf, which is supported in its place by the claws of the middle pair of feet, which are slender and inconspicuous. The irregular outline of the wings gives exactly the perspective effect of a shrivelled leaf* We thus have size, colour,... 
