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HUXLEY, Prof. T. H., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Professor of Natural History, Government School of Mines. On the Dermal Armour of _Jacare_ and _Caiman_, with Notes on the Specific and Generic Characters of recent _Crocodilia_ 1
"MY DEAR MR. OWEN,--After very great difficulty and much delay, I have at length obtained a fine healthy male adult _Aye-Aye_; and he is now enjoying himself in a large cage whi...
3. Part 3The only point in which the description of Müller and Schlegel seems to me to be incomplete[7] is with regard to the disposition of the teeth. They say--"The teeth of _C. Schleg...
2. Part 2The rib of the ninth vertebra is terminated by a single long and slender semicartilaginous process which does not unite with the sternum. Each of the vertebral ribs from the ten...
5. Part 5The spermatozoa in the Cockle are oblong and a little curved, and torulated, as it were, whilst they are pear-shaped in _Mytilus_; they are also extremely minute, and their appe...
20. Part 20_Male and Female._ Piceous brown; head rather paler, testaceous about the eyes; antennæ reddish, very short, 3rd joint conical, arista plumose; abdomen oval, not longer than the...
1. Part 1HUXLEY, Prof. T. H., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Professor of Natural History, Government School of Mines. On the Dermal Armour of _Jacare_ and _Caiman_, with Notes on the Specific...
15. Part 15_Female._ Tawny, with black bristles; head testaceous, whitish about the eyes and beneath; frontalia pale luteous, widening to the epistoma, beset with bristles along each side;...
18. Part 18_Female._ Body convex. Head almost as broad as the thorax; face vertical; palpi distinct, porrect; antennæ long, seated on a common petiole or first joint, with which the succee...
17. Part 17_Female._ Cinereous; head white about the eyes, with two brown dots on each side of the vertex, and with a deep black spot on each side in front; antennæ cinereous-brown; arista...
13. Part 13_Female._ Black; head with tawny tomentum in front, cinereous behind and beneath; thorax with tawny hairs in front and on each side, a whitish streak on each side by the base of...
14. Part 14_Male._ Brown; head with short black hairs on the vertex, white behind, pale testaceous, and with a brown stripe in front; proboscis and antennæ black; arista simple; thorax thi...
16. Part 16_Male and Female._ Bright green; head white, that of the female black and shining on each side of the broad dull black frontalia; antennæ black, nearly reaching the epistoma; ab...
19. Part 19207. CALOBATA BIFASCIATA, n. s. _Foem._ Nigra, longissima, gracillima, capite litura transversa albida, arista breviuscula basi robusta, abdominis dimidio antico subclavato fasc...
10. Part 10"Pet. Gaz. t. 44. f. 7", and "Grew. Mus. t. 10. f. 9" cited in the 'Systema', were also referred to in the MS. "Alba", and "in quibusdam", were interpolations in the Linnean han...
7. Part 7Testa rudis, ferrugineo-fusca, longitudinaliter striata, striis quasi ex punctis callosis concatenatis, alternis striis majoribus ovatis, parum obliqua, minus lateribus gibba, r...
9. Part 9This was evidently designed for the _Murices_ proper. The other species of the 'Museum' were distributed in the groups of _Cassis_, _Turricula_, _Bulla_, and _Strombus_. The las...
8. Part 8"Arg. t. 21. f. A." "Pet. Gaz. t. 94. f. 7." "Pet. Amb. t. 8. f. 6." were additional references in the written copy: "magnitudine ovi gallinacei", "apice et basi producta", were...
11. Part 11_Male and Female._ Bright ochraceous. Abdomen black towards _the_ tip. Legs black; femora ochraceous, black towards the tips; tibiæ with a snow white basal band. Wings blackish,...
12. Part 12_Female._ Blackish brown. Head with testaceous tomentum and with a slender lanceolate black callus between the eyes. Proboscis black; palpi piceous. Antennæ with a very small ho...
6. Part 6"Klein, t. 11. f. 62" (cited in the 'Systema'), and "d'Arg. t. 25. f.G" (the description of which suits better than the drawing) are the additions of the MS.: "sesquilatiore" wa...
21. Part 21It it worthy of remark that the various islands of the Moluccas, though generally divided by a less extent of sea, have fewer species in common; but the separating seas are in a...
22. Part 22Dacus, _Fabr._, 149 ---- addens, _Walk._, 149 ---- bilineatus, _Walk._, 150 ---- contrahens, _Walk._, 151 ---- diffusus, _Walk._, 153 ---- divergens, _Walk._, 149 ---- emittens,...
23. Part 23Tabanidæ, _Leach_, 102 Tabanus, _Linn._, 102 ---- factiosus, _Walk._, 102 ---- flexilis, _Walk._, 104 ---- immixtus, _Walk._, 103 ---- reducens, _Walk._, 103 Tabanus spoliatus,...