The Entomologist, Volumen13

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Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1880
 

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Página 46 - EPPING FOREST AND COUNTY OF ESSEX NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. — This Society has been established to further the " Investigation of the Natural History, Geology, and Archaeology of the county of Essex, and the publication of the results of such investigation," &c. We heartily wish the Club success ; and with a little management we have no doubt it will fulfil the intentions of its promoters. Mr. R. Meldola, the president, and the honorary secretary, Mr. W. Cole, will forward any further information...
Página 288 - This insect varies very much ; some resemble the ordinary varieties of conflua, others are in coloration more like N. Dahlii, and others are very like N. brunnea ; all are darker than the normal N. festiva. Some have a hoary appearance, and indeed present such singular differences that I do not doubt if the more remarkable aberrations were examined separately they would, in the absence of links, be regarded as distinct species.
Página 187 - On the Natural Affinities of the Lepidoptera hitherto referred to the Genus Acronycta.
Página 18 - The evening was warm and dewy, and we observed on the house-bank multitudes of these small evanescent sparks in the grass. The light displayed was very different from that which :they exhibit in the warm summer months. Instead of the permanent green glow, that illumines all the blades of the surrounding herbage, it was a pale transient spot, visible for a moment or two, and then so speedily hidden, that we were obliged, in order to capture the creature) to employ the light of a candle.
Página 186 - The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for the Year 1879.
Página 307 - They crawled up and down the stems, and disposed themselves in the concave sides just as they do in the fall when about to go into lethargy. On 10th March one of the larvae was found to have passed...
Página 59 - a Norwegian astronomer" is of the opinion that the track of the meteor must have lain too high to be heard. " He calculates from the reports to hand that the bursting of the meteor occurred at an altitude of about 6000 feet (sic), and he thinks that even this figure may be safely doubled.

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