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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... insects , with a coarse scaly surface and rich dull colours ; differing widely from the glossy and gaily coloured Agaristas , which are typical of the family in the East . Coleoptera . This is so vast a subject that , as in the case of ...
... insects , with a coarse scaly surface and rich dull colours ; differing widely from the glossy and gaily coloured Agaristas , which are typical of the family in the East . Coleoptera . This is so vast a subject that , as in the case of ...
Page 16
... insects of metallic green colours , and armed with enormous serrated mandibles . The allied genera , Pholidotus and Sphenognathus , inhabit Tropical South America . Streptocerus confined to Chili , is interesting , as being allied to ...
... insects of metallic green colours , and armed with enormous serrated mandibles . The allied genera , Pholidotus and Sphenognathus , inhabit Tropical South America . Streptocerus confined to Chili , is interesting , as being allied to ...
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... insects has already been sufficiently noticed under the latter region . Longicornia . The Neotropical Longicorn Coleoptera are over- whelming in their numbers and variety , their singularity and their beauty . In the recent Catalogue of ...
... insects has already been sufficiently noticed under the latter region . Longicornia . The Neotropical Longicorn Coleoptera are over- whelming in their numbers and variety , their singularity and their beauty . In the recent Catalogue of ...
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... Insect - fauna.- Looking at the insects of the Neotropical region as a whole , we are struck with the vast amount of specialty they present ; and , considering how many causes there are which must lead to the dispersal of insects , the ...
... Insect - fauna.- Looking at the insects of the Neotropical region as a whole , we are struck with the vast amount of specialty they present ; and , considering how many causes there are which must lead to the dispersal of insects , the ...
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... insect - forms to possess ; and it is no doubt owing to this antiquity , that such a complete diversity of generic forms has been here brought about , without any important deviation from the great family types which pre- vail over the ...
... insect - forms to possess ; and it is no doubt owing to this antiquity , that such a complete diversity of generic forms has been here brought about , without any important deviation from the great family types which pre- vail over the ...
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belonging birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili China coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba DISTRIBUTION.-The East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti Himalayas India inhabits insects Jamaica Japan Java Madagascar Malay Mammalia Marine fishes Mexico Miocene Moluccas NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN Nearctic region NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Neotropical region northern number of species occur Ocean Old World ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN SUB-REGIONS Oriental region Pacific PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB-REGIONS Palearctic region Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Plate Pliocene possesses range remarkable seas single species South America South Europe South Temperate Southern Sub-family Sumatra Tasmania Tropical America Tropical and South tropical regions Venezuela West Africa West Indian islands Zealand