Category: Science - Biology

Fossil Butterflies Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I.

Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson of New York City, to-day elected a member, sympathizing with the purposes of our Association in the advancement of science, and seeing the new crop of young and industrious scientific investigators who are to form the future basis of this Association fo...

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7. Part 7

Das Geäder ist nicht in seinem Verlauf zu ermitteln und da auch der Umriss des Flügels nicht vollständig vorliegt, ist die Gattung nicht mit Sicherheit zu ermitteln. In Form und...

2. Part 2

In the shape of the wings (Pl. I, fig. 8) this genus closely resembles Neorina (Pl. II, fig. 13). The fore wings are arched and roundly produced at the apex, though not so stron...

5. Part 5

“The neuration of the fore wing does not seem to me to accord sufficiently with that of any known genus of Oreades to admit of its being classed with them. It undoubtedly has cl...

8. Part 8

Dark brown or blackish with light markings. On the upper half of the fore wing (Pl. III, fig. 12), both above and below, the following markings are found: a small quadrate spot...

4. Part 4

M. Al. Lefebvre, après avoir étudié avec soin la position des nervures, la disposition des écailles et celle des taches, … est arrivé à conclure que j’avais pris l’aile inférieu...

6. Part 6

_Vanessa Pluto_ HEER, Insekt. Tert. Œning., ii, 179-82, Taf. 14, fig. 4, 5 (?) (1849); IB., Nouv. Mem. Soc. Helv., xi, 179-82, Tab. 14, figs. 4, 5 (?) (1850); GIEB., Deutschl. P...

3. Part 3

Si c’est chose convenue, qu’en déduire? Si ce n’est que par cette seule conformation, nous sommes actuellement en droit de décliner déjà toute espèce d’analogie entre la _Sepult...

9. Part 9

The food of _Pontia Freyeri_ is doubtful. All the living species of the genus so far as known, feed upon Cruciferæ; within this family they do not seem to be at all particular,...

11. Part 11

In his description of the insect Mr. Butler compares the neuration to that of Caligo, and says its nearest allies are Caligo, Dasyophthalma and Brassolis. In his latter paper he...

1. Part 1

Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson of New York City, to-day elected a member, sympathizing with the purposes of our Association in the advancement of science, and seeing the new crop of yo...

10. Part 10

The study of the floras of the European tertiaries has proceeded so far that in most cases we are able to find, in the very beds where the butterflies occur, plants which we may...