The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 2. köideMacmillan and Company, 1876 - 503 pages |
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... West Africa ; while Lobodonotus has one species in South America and two in Africa . Lucanida . - The Neotropical species of this family almost all belong to peculiar genera . Those common to other regions are Syndesus , confined to ...
... West Africa ; while Lobodonotus has one species in South America and two in Africa . Lucanida . - The Neotropical species of this family almost all belong to peculiar genera . Those common to other regions are Syndesus , confined to ...
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... West Africa ; Colobogaster has two in West Africa , one in Java and one in the Moluccas . The relations of South America and Australia as indicated by these insects has already been sufficiently noticed under the latter region ...
... West Africa ; Colobogaster has two in West Africa , one in Java and one in the Moluccas . The relations of South America and Australia as indicated by these insects has already been sufficiently noticed under the latter region ...
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... West Africa , and Hammatocerus , which has one in Australia . The Lamiidæ have 219 genera , and this is the only tropical region in which they do not exceed the Cerambycidæ . This number is almost exactly the same as that of the ...
... West Africa , and Hammatocerus , which has one in Australia . The Lamiidæ have 219 genera , and this is the only tropical region in which they do not exceed the Cerambycidæ . This number is almost exactly the same as that of the ...
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... West Africa , than to that of the Pacific islands . The families and many of the genera are the same , and a certain ... western Mexico , about 70 miles from San Blas . The largest is about 15 miles long by 10 wide . They are of horizon ...
... West Africa , than to that of the Pacific islands . The families and many of the genera are the same , and a certain ... western Mexico , about 70 miles from San Blas . The largest is about 15 miles long by 10 wide . They are of horizon ...
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... West Africa . Of Lamiidæ there are 14 genera , 8 of which are Neotropical , 1 common to Central America and Mexico , 1 to the United States and Cuba , while 2 , Proecha and Phidola , are confined to Cuba . the genera are curiously ...
... West Africa . Of Lamiidæ there are 14 genera , 8 of which are Neotropical , 1 common to Central America and Mexico , 1 to the United States and Cuba , while 2 , Proecha and Phidola , are confined to Cuba . the genera are curiously ...
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