Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page 61
... green or white flowers . My own observations in the Aru Islands for six months , and in Borneo for more than a year , while living almost wholly in the forests , are quite in accordance with this view . Conspicuous masses of showy ...
... green or white flowers . My own observations in the Aru Islands for six months , and in Borneo for more than a year , while living almost wholly in the forests , are quite in accordance with this view . Conspicuous masses of showy ...
Page 64
... green surface a few masses of yellow , white , pink , or more rarely of blue colour , indicating the position of handsome flowering trees . The well - established relation between coloured flowers and the need of insects to fertilize ...
... green surface a few masses of yellow , white , pink , or more rarely of blue colour , indicating the position of handsome flowering trees . The well - established relation between coloured flowers and the need of insects to fertilize ...
Page 73
... green Ornithopteras sailing on bird- like wing over the flowering shrubs which adorn the beach of the Ké and Aru ... green , or of silky yellow relieved by velvety black . In not a few the wings are powdered over with scales and spangles ...
... green Ornithopteras sailing on bird- like wing over the flowering shrubs which adorn the beach of the Ké and Aru ... green , or of silky yellow relieved by velvety black . In not a few the wings are powdered over with scales and spangles ...
Page 74
Alfred Russel Wallace. over with scales and spangles of metallic green , deepen- ing occasionally into blue or golden or deep red spots . Others again have spots and markings as of molten silver or gold , while several have changeable ...
Alfred Russel Wallace. over with scales and spangles of metallic green , deepen- ing occasionally into blue or golden or deep red spots . Others again have spots and markings as of molten silver or gold , while several have changeable ...
Page 78
... green - and - gold powdered wings resemble those of true swallow - tailed butterflies . Many Agaristidæ of the East are hardly inferior in splendour , while hosts of beautiful clear- wings and Ægeriidæ add greatly to the insect beauty ...
... green - and - gold powdered wings resemble those of true swallow - tailed butterflies . Many Agaristidæ of the East are hardly inferior in splendour , while hosts of beautiful clear- wings and Ægeriidæ add greatly to the insect beauty ...
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