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with blue. The tail is very long. Common in Guiana.* ECPHIMOTES, Fitzinger, Have the teeth and pores of polychrus, but small scales on the body only; the tail, which is thick, has large ones pointed and carinated. The head is covered with plates. They have the somewhat short and flatted form of certain agamae, rather than the lank form of the polychri. The most common species (Agama Tuberculata, Spix, XVI. or Tropidurus Torquatus, Pr. Max,) is ash-coloured, sown with whitish drops, and has on

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A761.09 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 9: Reptilia. Text

There are some which have a crest upon the tail supported by the spinous processes of the vertebrae, as in the istiuri and basilisks.* The Great Crested Anolis. (An. Velifer, Cuv.) A foot long; a crest on one half of the tail supported by a dozen or fifteen rays. The gular appendage extends under the belly. The colour is a blackish ashen blue. Its habitat is Jamaica and the other Antilles. We hare found berries in its stomach. The small Crested Anolis. (Lac Bimaculaia, Sparrm.) One half

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A761.09 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 9: Reptilia. Text

Some others, on the contrary, have these pores very marked.* Such is The Cepedian Gecko, Peron. Of the Isle of France; rose-colour, marbled with blue, and a white line along each flank. I know not, however, if the pores in this first subgenus be not a mark of sex. Other platydactyla are destitute of daws on the thumbs, and on the second and fifth toes of all the feet. They have no pores in the thighs. Such is The Wall-Gecko, (Lacertus Facetanus,) Aid. 654. Tarente of the Provincals; Tarentola

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A761.09 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 9: Reptilia. Text

. Bifurcus Brong.) Daud. IV. Has the casque flat and semi-circular, two large compressed and projecting prominences in front of the muzzle, which vary in length, probably according to the sexes; the grains are equal, the body is sown with crowded blue spots, and there is at the bottom of each flank a double series of white ones. The sixth and last family of the Saurians is that of the SCINCOIDIANS. To be recognised by its short feet, tongue not extensible, and equal scales, which cover the body and the

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A761.09 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 9: Reptilia. Text

Some subgenera have been recently separated from that of the toads; thus, The BOMBINATOR Mer., Do not differ from the others, but because their tympanum is concealed under the skin. Such is in our country, The Yellow-bellied Toad, (Rana Bombina, Gm. R s, xxii. Daud. xxvi.) The smallest and most aquatic of our toads, greyish or brown above, black blue with orange spots below. The hind feet completely palmate, and almost as elongated as those of the frogs; accordingly it leaps nearly as well as

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A761.09 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 9: Reptilia. Text

developed, and an orifice on each side of the neck. Beside the range of teeth around the jaws, they have a parallel range on the front of the palate. Such is the reptile a long time named, The Great, Salamander of North America, (Salamandra Gigantia, Barton. Hellbender of the United States. An. of the Lyce. of New York, I. pl. 17.) Fifteen to eighteen inches long, of a blackish blue. *The simultaneous existence and action of the branchial tufts and the lungs in these animals, can no more be contested

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A761.10 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 10: Pisces. Text

The SERRANI (properly so called) commonly named SEA PERCH. In which the two jaws have no apparent scales. The Mediterranean has some pretty species, as Perca scriba, Lin. Cuv. and Val. ii. 28. So named from some irregular blue stripes on the head1. Perca cabrilla, Lin. Cuv. and Val. ii. 29. With three oblique bands on the cheek2. It is also taken in the ocean. This species, and perhaps the preceding, was known to the Greeks under the name of xavn, and was said to have none but females

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blackish spots, blue stripes, and yellow tints; there are thirty rays to the second dorsal fin, and some oblique stripes on the flanks. We have one species smaller than the last. Trachinus vipera, Cuv., Otter pike of the English, Pen. 28. Bl. 61. Under the name of common weaver, paler, with the flanks smooth, and twenty-four rays to the second dorsal fin. It is still more feared than the common species, because, being smaller, one is more liable to be pricked by it. The Mediterranean has

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brownish, sometimes reddish; the pectoral fins are black for one-fourth of their length, edged with blue on the internal side: it is the largest species of our coasts; some of them occur more than two feet long. They are salted. Some allied species are found in India. They are new, and will be described in the fourth volume of our history of Fish. Tr. lyra, L., Bl. 350. Rond. 298. With the muzzle divided into two denticulated lobes; a strong spine to the operculum, to the suprascapular, and

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minated by a long and strong spine, which forms a powerful weapon. All their scales are carinated. The Mediterranean species (Trigla volitans, Lin. Bl. 351.) is a foot long, brown above, reddish underneath; the fins are black, spotted with blue. There is a similar species in the Indian seas(Dactyl, orientalis, Cuv., Russel 161.) CEPHALACANTHES, Lac p. Have nearly the same form, and particularly the same head, as the Dactyloptera, from which they differ by the total absence of the supernumerary

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latter rays of the second, and also the corresponding ones of the anal, are detached, and form what have been called spurious fins (pinn spuri .) This genus is subdivided as follows: The MACKEREL, (SCOMBER, Cuv.) Have a spindle-shaped body, covered with uniformly small smooth scales; the sides of the tail turned up with two cutaneous crests; the second dorsal separated from the first by an empty space. The common Mackerel, (Scomber scombrus, L.), Bl. 54. Has a blue back, with wavy black stripes

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There are in the Mediterranean many similar species, but as yet imperfectly described. The Alicorti (Sc. brachypterus, C.) Rondel 245. and Duham. sect. vii. pl. vii. f. 5. Of which the pectorals are only an eighth part of the total length. Sc. thunina, C., Aldrov. 315. Descrip. de l'Eg. Poiss. pl. xxiv. f. 5. Of a bright blue, with black lines waved and twisted in divers ways, c. In this first group also we must place The Bonita of the tropics, or striped-bellied Tunny, Sc. pelamys, L., Lac p

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, and sometimes weighs a hundred pounds. The Derbio, Rond. 252. (Sc. glaucus, L.) With the lateral line nearly straight; the anal and the second dorsal marked with a black spot in front; teeth short and even. L. sinuosa, Cuv. The Liche sinueuse of Rondelet, 255. The blue of the back divided from the silvery of the belly by a zigzag line, hooked teeth all in one row 1. M. de Lac p de separates from Lichia, under the ill chosen appellation of SCOMBEROIDES, those species in which the latter rays of the

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, L., Rondel. 204.; Bl. pavo, Risso. The dorsal entire; spotted and streaked with blue; a black ocellated spot behind the eye. Bl. rubriceps, Risso. Three first rays of the dorsal elevated, forming a red point; top of the head of the same colour. In others again, the PHOLIS, Artedi, there is neither tuft nor crest. One of them, a very small fish, is common on the coast of France. Bl. pholis, L., Bl. 71. 2. Profile vertical; the dorsal slightly emarginate, dotted and marbled with brown and

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G. niger, L. Penn. Brit. Zool. pl. xxxviii. (the common Goby). Body blackish brown; the dorsals bordered with whitish; the most common species on the coast of Europe. The extremities of the superior rays of the pectorals are free; length four or five inches. G.jozzo, Bl. 107. f. 3. (the blue Goby). Brown, marbled with blackish; blackish fins; two white lines on the first dorsal, whose rays are prolonged in filaments above the membrane. G. minutus, L. Aphia, Penn. pl. 37, (the white Goby). Body

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clearly distinguished 1. L. maculatus, Duham., Schn. iv. pi. ii. f. 1. Lab. maculatus, Bl. 284.? Lab. bergilta, Ascan. Ic. 1. From a foot to eighteen inches in length; twenty, or twenty-one dorsal spines; blue or greenish above, 1 With respect to these fishes we can neither trust to the figures of Bloch, nor to the synonyms of Gmelin. [page] 25

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, Risso. A rich green; a red streak on each scale; the head red, with blue lines; one or 1. Lachnolaimus suillus, Cuv., Catesb. II. xv. L. caninus, Cuv., Parra, pi. iii. f. 2. [page break

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Salv. 117. (razor-fish.) Red, variously striped with blue. The flesh is esteemed 1. Some of them have a scaly cheek 2. Others are distinguished by small scales 3. CHROMIS4,Cuv. The lips, protractile intermaxillaries, pharyngeals, dorsal filaments, and general appearance of a labrus; but the teeth of the pharynx and jaws resemble those of a card, and there is a range of conical ones in front. The vertical fins are filamentous, those of the belly being even frequently extended into long threads

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. They have the oblong form of a labrus, large scales, and an interrupted lateral line; they have three pharyngeal plates, two above, and one below, furnished with teeth, as in the labrus; but these teeth are transverse blades, and not rounded like paving stones. A species blue or red, according to the season, is found in the Archipelago, which is the Scarus creticus, Aldrov. Pisc. p. 8., and which late researches have convinced me is the scarus, so highly celebrated among the ancients; the same

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To this group also belongs the smallest of our European cyprini, called Cypr. amarus, Bl. viii. 3. An inch long; greenish above, a fine aurora-colour underneath; in April, during the spawning time, it has a steel-blue line on each side of the tail; the second dorsal ray forms a tolerably stiff spine. BARBUS, Cuv. The dorsal and anal are short; there is a strong spine for the second or third ray of the dorsal, and four barbels, two on the end, and two at the angles of the upper jaw. Cyprinus

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through the water. When these singular fishes are desirous of descending into the depths of the sea, they expel the air through the aperture of their mouth and gills, by compressing themselves almost suddenly; and it is thus that they send towards the surface of the water a hissing sound more or less prolonged. Black, ashen, blue, yellow, and red, are the colours which serve to adorn these fishes, which live in the warmest seas of India and America. Two species only inhabit the Mediterranean. [page

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out-edges it. The inferior is furnished with a great number of tentacula, of which the external ones are longer, and furnished with little cili , terminated each by a globule. They sometimes contain air; the middle ones are shorter, more simple and more fleshy. At the centre of all these tentacula is the mouth, in the form of a small projecting proboscis. It conducts to a simple stomach surrounded with a sort of glandulous substance. But one species is known of a fine blue, belonging to the

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bicornis, operculum of, 10 5. 2. Siphostoma diplochaitos, 16 Blue; side of body straw colour. 5. 3. Siphostoma unciata, details of, 16 4. 2. Spio seticorais, 22 Light chocolate colour. 4. 2a Spio seticornis, upper part of the head of, 22 4. 2b Spio seticornis, an appendix, 22 4. 2c Spio seticornis, one of the setaceous crooks of 22 8. 6. Spirorbis nautiloides, 11 Ashy. 1. 1. Terebella variabilis, 12 Lightish red. 1. 2. Terebella medusa, 12 Ashy red. [page] 53

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and narrow, curving towards the base. Lastly, Anthrax marginicollis, has the thorax green, with a white line on each side; the body blue, and the wings diaphanous, with the anterior part and base black. It is no less a point of duty than of inclination in the Editors, on closing the present portion of their work, to acknowledge their obligations to John George Children, Esq., and to the Rev. Frederick William Hope, for the very kind and liberal manner in which those gentlemen have allowed so

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, blue, with white stripes and spots. (Lciol. Guttatus. Cuv.) [page] 12

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PHYSIGNATHUS Have, with the same teeth, the same scales and pores, a head very much swelled behind, without cuticular appendage; and a crest of large pointed scales on the back and tail, which is much compressed. We are acquainted with one large species of Cochin-China (Physignathus cocinincs, Nob.); blue, with strong scales, and some spines on the swelling of the sides of the head. It lives on fruits, c. ISTIURUS, Cuv. LOPHURA, Gray.* Have, as a distinctive character, an elevated and

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with blue. The tail is very long. Common in Guiana.* ECPHIMOTES, Fitzinger, Have the teeth and pores of polychrus, but small scales on the body only; the tail, which is thick, has large ones pointed and carinated. The head is covered with plates. They have the somewhat short and flatted form of certain agam , rather than the lank form of the polychri. The most common species (Agama Tuberculata, Spix, XVI. or Tropidurus Torquatus, Pr. Max,) is ash-coloured, sown with whitish drops, and has on

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There are some which have a crest upon the tail supported by the spinous processes of the vertebr , as in the istiuri and basilisks.* The Great Crested Anolis. (An. Velifer, Cuv.) A foot long; a crest on one half of the tail supported by a dozen or fifteen rays. The gular appendage extends under the belly. The colour is a blackish ashen blue. Its habitat is Jamaica and the other Antilles. We have found berries in its stomach. The small Crested Anolis. (Lac Bimaculata, Sparrm.) One half smaller

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Some others, on the contrary, have these pores very marked.* Such is The Cepedian Gecko, Peron. Of the Isle of France; rose-colour, marbled with blue, and a white line along each flank. I know not, however, if the pores in this first subgenus be not a mark of sex. Other platydactyla are destitute of claws on the thumbs, and on the second and fifth toes of all the feet. They have no pores in the thighs. Such is The Wall-Gecko, (Lacertus Facetanus,) Ald. 654. Tarente of the Provincals; Tarentola

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. Bifurcus Brong.) Daud. IV. Has the casque flat and semi-circular, two large compressed and projecting prominences in front of the muzzle, which vary in length, probably according to the sexes; the grains are equal, the body is sown with crowded blue spots, and there is at the bottom of each flank a double series of white ones. The sixth and last family of the Saurians is that of the SCINCOIDIANS. To be recognised by its short feet, tongue not extensible, and equal scales, which cover the body and the

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Some subgenera have been recently separated from that of the toads; thus, The BOMBINATOR, Mer., Do not differ from the others, but because their tympanum is concealed under the skin. Such is in our country, The Yellow-bellied Toad, (Rana Bombina, Gm. R s. xxii. Daud. xxvi.) The smallest and most aquatic of our toads, greyish or brown above, black blue with orange spots below. The hind feet completely palmate, and almost as elongated as those of the frogs; accordingly it leaps nearly as well as

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developed, and an orifice on each side of the neck. Beside the range of teeth around the jaws, they have a parallel range on the front of the palate. Such is the reptile a long time named, The Great Salamander of North America, (*Salamandra Gigantia, Barton. Hellbender of the United States. An. of the Lyce. of New York, I. pl. 17.) Fifteen to eighteen inches long, of a blackish blue. * The simultaneous existence and action of the branchial tufts and the lungs in these animals, can no more be contested

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.) Striata. Lacerta Striata, Daud. Pseudo-Ameiva Striata, Fitz. Merrem. Wetter. Ann. i. t. 1, Pr. Max. Beytr. xiii. Grey, sides blue, with two longitudinal brown lines; abdominal scales twelve rows; dorsal scales keeled. Genus IV. LACERTA. Tongue contractile; head shielded; palate toothed; lateral line, none; the bones of the skull advanced over the temples [page] 3

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. Psammodromus. Fitz. Spanish Lizard. L. (Psammodromus) Hispanicus, Fitz MSS. See also Var. of Lac. grammica, Licht. Blackish blue, lighter underneath. Spain. III. Back and tail with keeled scales, belly with smooth imbricate scales, collar none, femoral pores numerous. Algyra Cuv. Common Algyra. Lac. (Algyra) Cuvieri, Lac. Algyra, Lin. Tail long, round, brown, beneath yellowish, with two yellow streaks on each side; length four inches. Spain. IV. Back and tail with lanceolate imbricate keeled scales

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thighs and legs bristly. Tail cylindrical, with two rings of depressed scales between each rings of spines. Tampico. Clouded Guana. Iguana (Cyclura) Nubila. Gray. Blue with oblique bands of roundish spots; tail compressed, with four rows of small depressed scales between each ring of spines. South America ? Brit. Mus. Figured here under the name of Clouded Lizard. L. Nebulosa. II. Head covered with convex scales, and often some superciliary plates; back, covered with small scales slightly crested

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, large, recurved, rather compressed. Mexico. Mus. Berl. C. Ribs forming complete circles; head scutellated; throat extensile. I.Head hooded; back crested; pores o.; toes margined on the side. Basilicus, nob. (part Cuvier.) Mitred Basilisc. Bas. Americanus, Laur. Lac. Basilicus, Lim. Seb. i. t. 100. f. 1. Guiana. Mus. Brit. Banded Basilisc. Basiliscus Vittatus, Boie. Blue, with two series of spots down the sides of the back, and white streak along each side of the dorsal ridge, another edging the

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Orange, marked with blue, and a white streak on the side; femoral pore distinct. Isle of France. Ornamented Platydactyle. Plat. Ornatus. Phelsuma, Gray. Ann. Phil. Brown; back with six rows of red oval spots. New Holland. Toes, first and fourth clawed, free, dilated; pores none. Tarentola, Gray. Fasciculated Gecko. Plat. Fascicularis. Gecko, Daud. Grey; head rough; back with twelve series of groups of three or four small acute spines. South of Europe. Annulated Gecko. Plat gyptiacus. Gecko

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Lophura. Lophura Cuvieri, Gray, Mus. Paris. Brown green spotted; body with four or five oblique bands of blue-eyed spots; scales of body and tail small subequal; back and end of tail with a series of distant, short, compressed spines. Tail compressed, interrupted by distant rings, upper and lower edge two keeled. Cochin China. Lesueur's Lophura. L. Lesueurii, Gray, Mus. Paris. Dark brown, varied with pale netted lines; scales of head conical, with scattered acute conical tubercles on the head and

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scales, the scales of the tail becoming larger near the end; tail much compressed; young with scarcely any crest. Dark blue, with some oblique white bands on the side, and whitish beneath, with some rather larger compressed scales on the side of the chin. i. Head short, arched; back, with minute scales, not crested; tail with whorled scales. Uromastyx. * Scales of tail large, spinose, Uromastyx. Cuv. Mastigura. Flern. Common Uromastyx. Uromastyx Spinipes, Merrem. U. Acanthinurus, Bell. Zool. Jour

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sided, slightly keeled; dark brown; sides, with dark band and cross rows of white spots beneath. Depp's Gerrhonote. Gerr. Deppii, Wiegm. Isis. xxi. Dorsal scales four angular, smooth; olive black, irregularly white spotted, beneath white; tail round, white ringed. Mexico. Retired Gerrhonote. Gerrhonotus T niatus. Wiegm. Dorsal scales four angular, smooth; bluish, with black angular cross bands; tail black, ringed. Blue Gerrhonote. Gerrhonotus C ruleus, Wiegm. Dorsal scales, four angular; olive

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Blind Amphisb na. Amph. C ca, Cuv. Eyes none. Martinique. c. Legs and subanal pores none; thoracic rings irregular; the plates united together in front. Leposternon, Spix. Dotted Leposternon-Lepostcrnon Microcephalus, Spix Amph. Punctata, Pr. Max.. Blue gray, with numerous black dots. Sharp-nosed Leposternon. Leposternon Oxyrhychus. Dekay Siliman Jour. xiv. 907. Yellowish; back with three longitudinal grooves; nose pointed, not mucronate. 11. Body covered until imbricate scales. Gen. V

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Thin Scaled Galley Wasp. Tiliqua Tenuis, Gray. Pale brown, back with irregular black spots, forming a band on each side the back, scales thin polished. Fine Scaled Galley Wasp. Tiliqua Microlepis, Gray. Pale, with numerous irregular transverse brown bands; head very depressed, forehead flat, eyes large, tail slender, toes very unequal. Scales very thin, closely adpressed keeled. Banded Galley Wasp. Tiliqua Fasciatus. Silvery blue, head with three, neck with one, back and tail with six broad

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1818. Feb. 12. quarter of a mile in diameter; they are so low as not to be visible from our deck at a greater distance than seven miles. Their summits are crowned with a slight shrubby vegetation, the bright verdure of which, separated from the dark blue colour of the sea by their glittering sandy beaches, formed a pleasing contrast to the dull, monotonous appearance of the main land. These islets are in fact only the dry parts of a shoal, on which the sand has accumulated, and formed a soil

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thought to be the Rajah's vessel, bore a blue flag in addition. Some stragglers on the rocks, who appeared to take no part in the labours of the rest, and who were probably the chiefs, waved repeatedly to us to stop; but as their acquaintance could render us no service, I declined their invitations. Our presence did not appear to have excited any particular bustle amongst them, but every precaution was taken on our part to repel any attack. The proas, Which were fifteen in number, appeared to be

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of the canoe were neatly, and even tastefully joined; the poles were spanned together on either side by rope constructed of strips of bark. The canoe was made of one sheet of bark, but in the bottom, within it, short pieced were placed crossways, in order to preserve its shape, and increase its strength. The description of a canoe seen by Captain Flinders at Blue Mud Bay, in the Gulf of Caspentaria, differs very little from the above *. Whilst we were bringing away the canoe the natives, who had

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1819. Oct. 25. our arrival had brought down to see us, naked to the hips, which alone supported a petticoat or wrapper of blue cotton stuff that exposed their knees. The beach was lined with the areca, or fan- palm tree, from which the well-known liquor called toddy is procured. During our conference with these people, they were all busily employed in eating the fruit spike of the piper betle *, which they first thickly covered with shell-lime; after chewing it for some time, they spit it out

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1820. Aug. 2. the latter was a specimen of the psittacus h matodus, or Blue-mountain parrot of Port Jackson; and a crane-like bird, similar to the ardea antigone, was seen at a distance. Some of our gentlemen observed the impression of a bird' foot, resembling that of an emu; it was nine inches broad: very few insects were found here. We saw no more of the natives after their visit on the 30th, but the smokes of their fires were frequently observed in the interior. Mr. Cunningham found some

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1822. Jan. 4. growth and habit; they were at this time covered with flowers and ripe fruit; but so painful was it to the eyes and senses to remain for a moment stationary in this heated valley, that whilst I gathered a quantity of the seeds of this truly rich plant, my servant was obliged to hurry away to a cooler air on the ridge, which we had again nearly reached; and but for this fine plant, and the no less conspicuous blue-flowered sc vola nitida, Br. the whole scene would have deeply

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minute pores. 3. P. ORNATA, (n.s.) P. supra plumbe macul , fasci que ruf ornata, subtus albida. Icon. Inhabits Isle of France. Head depressed, truncated in front, covered with minute ovate scales; the front of the upper part lead-coloured, with a rather broad red band a little before the eyes, and a white crescent-shaped spot on each side immediately behind it, and then some obscure red shades just behind that; the back lead-coloured and blue, with six longitudinal series of irregular-sized red

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, some of which are more than half an inch in diameter, with a few rounded pebbles of calcedony. The latter rock is nearly identical with that of Simms' Island, near Goulburn's Island on the north coast. CHASM ISLAND, WINCHELSEA ISLAND, and BURNEY'S ISLAND, are of the same materials as Groote Eylandt: and sand-stone was found also on the western shore of BLUE-MUD BAY. On the shore of the mainland, opposite to Groote Eylandt, a little north of latitude 14 , Mr. Brown observed the common sandy

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PL. FIG. 53. 2 Agarista glycin , cat. and chrys. of 53. 1 Agarista Pales, vol. ii. page 596 Brownish black, with the summit and a muscular band across the centre white, the lower wings with the centre white, tinged with blue, base of wings beneath orange. 107. 2 Aglae c rulea, ii. 576 120. 9 Aglaope infausta, cat. and chrys. of 120. 11 Aglaope Americani, ii. Blue, with a red collar. 129. 11 Aglossa dilucidalis, ii. 623 26. 10 Agra splendida, i. 194 Greenish bronze. 94. 4 Agrion chinensis, ii

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PL. FIG. want of the caudal appendages, and in having cavities to receive the four hind-legs. 48. 1 Cymatodera Hopii, vol. i. page 375, and pl. lxi. f. 5, details. 25. 13 Cynthia abaxoides, i. 227 Bluish black, shining. 110. 3 Cyphocrana, head of, ii. 173 124. 2 Cyphonotus dromedarius, i. 542 Whitish, verniculated with black; legs black, allied to Pimelia. D 109 3 Darniscamelus, ii. 260, and pl. cxxxviii. f. 5. details. 21. 4 Denaida eunice, ii. 586 Violet black, with pale blue spots on the

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PL. FIG. 113. 3 Gryllotalpa didactylus, vol. ii. page 174 Dark brown. 113. 4 Gryllotalpa vulgaris, details of, ii. 174 63. 2 Gryllus umbraculatus, ii. 193 64. Gryllus monticollis, ii. 215 113. 1 Gryllus Servillei, ii. 174 Dark brown. 113. 2 Gryllus campestris, details of, ii. 174 35. 9 Gymnetis nervosa, i. 495 Red, spotted with, and legs black. 130. 1 Gryllus migratorius, ii. 204 130. 2 Gryllus gryllotalpa, ii. 193 130. 4 Gryllus domesticus, ii. 196 7. 8 Gyrinus sulcatus, i. 250 Blue black

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tessellata, cat. of, ii. 609 8. 1 Siagona Erurop a, i. 199 Black. 127. 6 Sialis lutarius, ii. 299 36. 10 Silis tricolor, i. 338 Black, antenn and sides of the thorax yellow, and two spots on the elytra white. 51. 1 Sinodendron cylindricum, i. 498 Black. 83. 2 Smerinthus Io, ii. 599 Brown and rufous, with a spot on the lower wings black, with a blue pupil. 11. 1 Sph roderus nitidus, i. 231 Shining copperish black. 137. 1 Sphinx Achemenides, ii. 678 137. 4 Sphinx atropos, ii. 678 83. 1 Sphinx

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the vagina is the opening of the urethra; and in the same situation are found the two trumpet-formed openings, which may be considered as separate matrices. The Ornithorynchi have hitherto been found only in the rivers in the vicinity of Port Jackson, especially the river Nepean, on the eastern coast of New Holland. Those found in 1815, in Campbell River, and the River Macquarie, beyond the Blue Mountains, are larger than those before known: though they do not appear to differ specifically

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long; the posterior to the houghs six inches; the pasterns only half an inch; the hoofs oval, three-quarters of an inch long, and horn colour; the spurious hoofs very small but distinct. A female in the Museum of Paris is smaller and lower, the blue colours more distinct, but less white about the belly or limbs. There are good figures of this species in Mr. Daniell's Sketches of Southern Africa; its Dutch name Blauwbokje has caused it sometimes to be confounded with A. Leucoph a. The species

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particularly curled in small meshes, shaped like a cork-screw; the eyes are blue, and the colour pure white. It is the most beautiful breed of India. The late Sir Joseph Banks had a specimen which came from the gardens of Tippoo Sultan, at Seringapatam. India and China are, besides, in possession of a breed which seems allied to the African Adimain race. It is rather high on the legs, with middle-sized curved horns, a collar of hair reaching to the shoulders, which, together with the head and legs

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horns are short and bent backwards. The middle-sized race, Common Zebu or Deswali of India and Northern Africa, white or blue-gray and white, brown, and even black, breeds commonly with the straight-backed, and loses the hump on the shoulders in the fourth generation. This race has horns mostly bent forward and upwards it is not unfrequent in England. The Chinese breed, in size equal to the smaller British race; hump not very large; forehead round; very short horns, bent back; dewlap loose; colour

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dorsal fin. This tail, with the assistance of these vast lobes, forms a powerful lever, and contributes mainly to the various evolutions of the animal. The epidermis is very soft to the touch, and of a deep blue or brilliant black above, whitish underneath; under the true skin is a thick bed of very white fat convertible into oil. The Dutch, Danes, and most of the marine people of Europe, pursue this animal into remote and inhospitable regions, to obtain this fat. The Laplanders and people of Gro

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which are thicker and larger than the rest; one half of the tooth is enclosed in the gum, and the other half, is of a rounded form at the top, ovo d and divided into two holes by a longitudinal curve. When this animal has received a few deep wounds, it sends forth the most piercing cries, which, when simultaneously repeated by a number of individuals of the same species, produces a bellowing excessively deep and terrific. The Dolphin of Peron is blackish-blue on the back; end of the muzzle and

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olivaceous gray, brown above; white beneath, beard yellow; face blue, and the nose red, in the adult males. Simia sphinx, Lin. Sys. Nat. 35. S. Mormon, Gmel. Sys. Nat. Cynocephalus mormon, Desm. Mam. 70. Papio sus, Baboon, Gesner, Quad. 252. Choras, Buff. Supp. VII. Mantegar, Phil. Trans. n. 220, Bradley, Nat. 117 Mandril, G. Cuvier, M nag. Mus. Great Baboon, Penn. Quad. 188. Variegated Baboon, Shaw, Zool. I. 17. Boggo, Travel. Icon. Gesner, t. 253. Bradley, Nat. t. 15. f. 1. Buffon, Supp. VII. t. 9

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interval, and six below. It includes the Black Shoulder Bat, and the netted Bat. Rafinesque also describes the Blue Wing Bat, the Black Back Bat, the Sparred Bat, the Monk Bat, the Black-faced Bat, and the Big-eared Bat, but without placing them decidedly in either subdivision of the genus . * It is known that these teeth occasionally fall out in the Vespertilionid , which renders this character more doubtful. * We cannot conclude this long list of species of the Vespertilionid without, in a more

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neck long; croup more elevated than the withers; horns, twenty-one to twenty-six inches long, black, slender, striated, annulated, slightly lyrate, points turned forward and sharp; no lachrymary sinus; nose ovine; ears short; body long; tail eight inches without tuft; hair rough, thick, coarse, concealing a fine downy wool underneath; the face and legs, dark; neck and back, blue-gray slate colour passing to rufous; belly, inside of the limbs, and end of the tail, white. Female characters

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-brown fringe along the throat, down to between the fore-legs; tail lined with long white hair; general colour of the fur deep brown; hoofs pointed, blue-black; females smaller; base of horns less approximated, covered with coarse hair; calves pure white. Antelope Gnu, Auctor. The Gnu of English. A. Niou of French Authors. Gnoo of the Hottentots. Wilde Beest of the Dutch Colonists. Icon. W. Daniell. F. Cuiver. Nobis in all its states. Habitat. The Karoo Plains of South Africa. 886. 2. C. Taurina

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shorter; the legs more slender; the tongue blue; and the hair soft and woolly. 893. 5. B. Bison (the Bison.) Adult male six feet high at the shoulder, and ten feet three inches from nose to tail; head broad; horns distant, short, robust, slightly turned forwards, dark coloured; forehead arched; eye large, full dark; body with fourteen pair of ribs; mamm disposed in a square; anterior half of the animal, excepting the chaffron, covered with a heavy coat of mixed woolly and long harder hair, a foot

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bling the Common Ox; forehead more arched; horns robust, not bent back, spinous processes of the withers, much elevated, externally projecting? forehead covered with whitish wool; eyes small, pale-blue; hair smooth, close, shining, brown; tail short, tufted. Le Gaour, Mem. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. vol. ix. Gaur, Dr. Johnson's Sketches of Indian Sports. B. Gaurus, Nob. Gor of Firdousi, mistaken for the Wild Ass. Icon. Habitat. Rhamghur district, and other high mountain forests of India, thiopia

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Sub-genus I CATODON (LACEP.) Orifice of spiracles placed at the very end of the upper part of muzzle; no dorsal fin. 919. 1. P. Macrocephalus (Great-headed Cachalot.) Lower teeth twenty to twenty-three on each side, curved, and a little pointed at the extremity; small conical teeth concealed in the upper gums; tail straight and conical; longitudinal eminence on the back, above the anus; upper part of the body blackish or slate-blue, a little spotted with white; belly whitish; forty-six to

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brown and grayish but it varies so much in the prevalence of brown or white that there are some with the body all white with only a brown spot on each quill of the mantle: the feet and membrane of the beak are sometimes yellow and sometimes blue. This genus has not been adopted generally as the character is not constant and only found in the adult specimens. The second section of the great genus FALCO is that of birds of prey called ignoble because they cannot be easily employed in falconry; a

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mandible, moreover, on each side, is a round, flat, blue substance, not unlike the wattle of a cock, changing by degrees from the base to a fine orange. Dr. Foster first indicated this species, on whose habits we hare little information. The ROLLERS, in certain characters and colours, have soma affinity with the jays, but are clearly distinguishable from them by the attributes noticed in the text. This family is considerably extended over the ancient continent. We possess but one species in

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, in the extensive and valuable collection of the Zoological Society. This species was brought from Sumatra by the late lamented Sir Stamford Raffles, and belongs, like the common species, to that division of the genus, distinguishable by the elongation of the middle tail-feathers. The top of the head, and half down the back, are of a rich brown colour; the throat, rump, and tail-feathers, are ultra-marine blue; the breast and wing-coverts, sea-green; the primary quills of the wings are nearly

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head is marron-colour; the neck is bright golden-yellow; the body, wings, and thighs are shining metallic black-green, and the tail is perfectly white. The beak is of a brilliant golden-yellow, the base covered with a thick horny bed, transparent, and marked diagonally with three deep black-coloured furrows, the ridges between which are reddish-orange; round the eyes and the guttural skin are livid yellow, tinted with blue. The total length of this bird is near four feet, and the bill ten inches

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, all colours, blue excepted. The woodpeckers are continually occupied in hollowing trees: into the holes of these they retire during the night, and also when they lay their eggs, which the female deposits there without making any nest The father and mother keep their young ones there until the latter are fit for reproduction. During the day, they remain isolated, and their life seems a laborious and active one. The species of this genus are very numerous; even Buffon was acquainted with nine and

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the perpendicular banks of rivers, in which they lay only two eggs; the male assists his mate in her incubation. The young make no cry for food. The Red and Blue Maccaw of the English writers, P. Maccao, is as big as a fowl. It inhabits South America and the Antilles, but is observed to recede from those parts which the colonists bring, by degrees, into cultivation. It is fond of [page] 57

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quickness and agility. Their voice is sonorous and deep; and they inhabit South Africa. Our figure of the Blue Curassow, var., corresponds with Dr. Latham's description of a species under that name, which he refers to CRAX. It seems, however, very probable that VOL. VII. Q Q [page] 58

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minent membrane there, of azure blue, is covered with black hairs. The upper part of the tarsi is feathered; the tail is broad, and very slightly rounded. This bird, when adult, is from twenty-six to twenty-eight inches long, according to the sexes; the tail is ten or eleven inches; the tarsus measures two inches and three lines; the bill, fifteen lines. The female is distinguished by being of a smaller size. The feathers of the tuft are not of a perfect white, but varied with brown or black

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period for these birds is when the tail begins to shoot. They may at first be fed with a mixture, composed of hard eggs, crumb of bread, minced lettuce, and ant-eggs. The larv of the blue-fly, which deposits its eggs in meat, are also recommended for them by some writers. The domestic education of game is the best method of repeopling an estate with them, and repairing the destruction occasioned by the chase. M. Temminck recommends the following methods: A place should be selected to contain the

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never could, however, succeed in procuring a complete spoil. All that he could obtain, were two long feathers of the middle of the tail. These feathers, in possession of M. Temminck, serve to confirm the existence of the species, and also to indicate its extreme beauty. The general colours of this bird have been described only after the Chinese figures, the inexactitude of which may be judged by their representing the two long feathers which we have mentioned, as tinted with blue and red, two

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corneous substance. The skin of the head and of the top of the neck is naked, tinted with sky-blue and flame colour, with pendant caruncles, similar to those of the turkey. The wings have certain stiff stems, without barbs, which serve as weapons in fighting; the claw of the internal toe is much the strongest. This is the largest bird in nature after the ostrich, from which it differs considerably in the anatomy, for in this the intestines are short, and the c ca small. Nor is there the

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. papillaris, Id. Hy. pardalii, Id. Hy. cinerascens. Id Hy. affinis, Id. Hy. trivitata, Id. Hy. abbreviata, Id. Hy. lateralis, Daud. Rana arborea, Gm. Hyla viridis, Laur. Calamita Carolinensis, Penn. C. cinerea, Schn. Rana bilineata, Shaw. Hy. femoralis, Daud. Hy. syuirella, Daud. H. occularis, var Leconte. Hy. delitescens, Leconte. Hy. versicolor, Id. Hy. occularis, Latr. Hy. Quoyii, Bory. Hy. Gaimardii, Id. Hy. Seuerii, Desm. Hy. bifasciata, Gray, Mus. Paris. Blue tree-frog, White's Journal

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its size to be only that of a common apple. All the other characters resemble the preceding, with the exception of a double spot of blackish blue, which they have observed on each side of die carapace. Sch pff received from Pennsylvania a young individual, whose carapace was four inches long, two inches nine lines fe breadth, and one inch two lines in thickness. Its clear [page break

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visible on the thighs, which, in addition to their teeth, distinguishes them from the iguanas. * Ag Undulata, Daud. A species of all America, remarkable for the white cross which it has under the throat on a ground of black blue. The Ag. Nigricollaris, Spix, xvi. 2, and Cyclurus, xvii. f. 1, are at least greatly approximating to it. Spix has expressed himself with little exactness in saying that the scales of his Uposama are verticillated, which has deceived M. Fitzinger. The genus Tropidosaurus

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Bl. 334. Aldrov. 313. Salvian 123. B lon 1791.) Blue, with the back striped obliquely blackish: it also inhabits the two oceans. It is a fish remarkable for the extreme length of its gall-bladder, which was spoken of by Aristotle2. CYBIUM, Cuv.3 Have a long body, without corslet, and large, compressed, sharp teeth. Their palatines have only short even teeth. There are several in the warm parts of the two oceans, of which some grow to a good size4. THYRSITES 5. Differ from the cybiums by having

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., which is the Sparus Abildgardii, Bl. 259., and the Spare rougeor, Lac p. III. xxxiii. 3.; the Great scarus with blue jaws, Sc. guacamaia, Cuv., Parra xxvi.; the Sc. Catesby, Lac p., Catesby II. xxix.; the Sc. brid , Lac p. iv. 1, 2. Sc. chrysopterus, Bl. Schn. 57. Sc. capitaneus Cuv., which is the Sc. enn acanthe, Lac p. iv. p. 6.; and his Sc. denticul , Id. p. 12. and pl. i. f. 1., and of which he gives a description annexed to the Sc. chadri. 2 Sc. loro, Bl. Schn., Parra xxvii. 1. Sc. c ruleus

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among them are some whichhave not behind the gills any scales larger than the others. Such is a specieswhich we possess in the Mediterranean. Balistes capriscus, L., Salvian, 207, and Will. I. 19. Pourc, pesce balestra, c. Of a brownish grey, spotted with blue, orgreenish. Its flesh is but little esteemed1. Others, with this tail not armed, have some larger scales behind the gills 2. 1 N.B. I suspect the B. maculatus, Bl. 151. to be onlythe Capriscus. I am even tempted to refer to the same, the B

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a grayish blue, surrounded with a large brownish circle, and a number of whitish dots; the under side is grayish white. The head is scarcely distinguishable from the body, and is terminated laterally by two processes, which join the pectoral fin. The upper opening of the air-vents is surrounded with a folded and indented membrane, and there is an infinity of minute pores, from [page] 64

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stratum had been overturned, for the cetacea discovered by M. Cortesi were in other beds, and much deeper than the last-mentioned. In our own country, the remains of the rhinoceros have been found in vast abundance: at Chatham, near Brentford, in the neighbourhood of Harwich, at Newham, near Rugby in Warwickshire, recently at Lawton in the same county, at Oreston, near Plymouth, in a cavern, (as we mentioned before) c., all found in the same sort of loose strata, in the blue argilla or gravel; all

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gypsum of Montmartre, or those of an antiquity more remote, such as the limestone of the neighbourhood of Caen, from which the frieze-stones are taken, and the blue calcareous marl of the environs of Honfleur. It will be necessary, before we proceed to the consideration of their fossil remains, to say a word or two concerning the distinctive characters of the existing species of crocodiles, and [page] 17

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. lxi. 1. 3. 4: common on the floating fucus of almost every sea. GLAUCUS, Forster. Body elongated; orifices of the anus, and of the genital organs, as in the preceding; four very small conical tentacula; and on each side three gills, each of which is formed of long slips, arranged like the sticks of a fan, which also aid them in swimming. These are the beautiful little animals that inhabit the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, prettily coloured with blue and mother-of-pearl. They swim on their

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water, where they swim in an inverted position, like the planorbes, the limn , and many other mollusca, with the assistance of their small foot. Andr Dupont says that the middle line of what he names the back, but which in fact is the belly, appeared like a leaf of silver, and was in a continual undulatory movement. This little animal, little more than an inch in length, in consequence of its fine blue colour, silvery under the foot and at the extremity of the digitations, and especially from

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principal tints of the solar spectrum, to the crimson of the morning, to orange, to greenish, to azure-blue, and finally to an opaline yellow, when the mass is, to all appearance, in a state of absolute repose. [page 419

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There is a very fine species of a deep blue, in the Atlantic ocean. (Mynias cyanea, Cuv., R g., An. iv. pl. xv. f. 8.) PRIAPULUS, Lam., Have a cylindrical body, marked transversely with deep annular wrinkles, terminated in front by an elliptical mass, slightly wrinkled longitudinally; pierced with the mouth, and behind with the anus, from which issues a thick bundle of filaments, which may be the organs of generation. The interior of the mouth is furnished with a great number of very sharp

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still more intense. The caustic quality of this humour is not, however, always in accordance with the phosphorescent property, since there are species which are not luminous, but which, nevertheless, produce a sting. These animals are in general perfectly colourless, and resemble the purest and most transparent rock-crystal. There are some, however, which have coloured parts, reddish, fine ultra-marine blue, greenish, c. The apparatus of sensation in the medusa appears to be limited to the

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of this subgenus, and appears to me closely allied with that which I have named melanogaster, and which I believe to be the Drassms lucifugus of M. Walckenaer, (Sch ff. Icon. ci. 7.) One of the prettiest species, and which is very commonly found in the neighbourhood of Paris, running on the ground, is the D. relucens. It is small, almost cylindrical, with the thorax fawn-coloured, covered with a silky and purple down; the abdomen mixed with blue, green, and red, with metallic reflexions, and

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of these eggs varies very much according to the species, and the time elapsed from their deposition, because in the latter case, the developed germ communicates its tints to the membranes which enfold it. Some of these eggs exclude in the body of the mother; this is the case with those of the pucerons at certain periods of the year, with those of the blue meat-fly, of the hippoboscus, and in fine, with all the insects which on that account are termed ovoviparous. The sexes are most usually

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DRYPTA, Latr. Fab. All the known species belong to the old continent, or New Holland. Two are to be found in Europe, always on the ground. The most common is Drypta emarginata, Fab. Clairv. Entom. Helv. II. xvii. Hist. Nat. des Coleops. d'Eur. fasc. II. x. 1. It is about four lines in length, of a beautiful azure blue, with the mouth, the antenn , and the feet, fawn-colour. The extremity of the first articulations of the antenn , and the middle of the third, are blackish. The elytra have

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of an elongated hatchet, with the internal side curvilinear. The tooth of the emargination is very small. The third articulation of the antenn is at least three times longer than the second. PROCERUS, Meg. Have the labrum bilobate. All the known species are equally of a large size, either entirely black, or of that colour underneath, and blue or greenish above, with the elytra very much chagreened. They generally inhabit the mountains of the eastern and southern countries of Europe, and those of

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Italy. The following is Mr. Kirby's account of this very curious phenomenon: "The most famous for their exploits in this way are those which, on this account, are distinguished by the name of Bombardiers. The most common species (B. crepitans), which is found occasionally in many parts of Britain, when pursued by its great enemy, Calosoma inquisitor, seems at first to have no mode of escape, when suddenly a loud explosion is heard, and a blue smoke, attended by a very disagreeable scent, is seen

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explosion, and the action of the vapour, which it then sheds, occasions a very sensible degree of pain, and one of long duration. The brachinus displosor is found, like the other species in general, under stones, and under heaps of rotten plants in the dry and elevated grounds of Navarre, Arragon, and Catalonia. Mr. Kirby says, above, that its caustic smoke reddens white paper, but M. Leon Dufour says that it is blue, in which this change is wrought. Probably both are right. Be that as it may

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Staphylinus riparius, Panz. Faun. Insect. Germ. IX. ii, about three lines in length, very narrow, and very elongated, fawn-coloured, with the head, chest, upper extremity of the abdomen and knees black; elytra blue. Very common in the humid sand, under stones, at the root of trees, c. The others, STILICHUS, Lat., have all the articulations of the tarsi entire. (See Lat. Gen. Crust, et Insect. I, page 290, et seq., and Gyllen. Insect. Suec. I. Part 2, p. 372.) EV STHETUS, Grav., Whose antenn

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loose articulations. The front of the corslet presents no depression. Necrobia violacea, Oliv. Col. ibid. 76, bis. I, 1; Dermestes violaceus, Lin., is small, of a violet or greenish blue, with feet of the same colour. Its cases have points disposed in longitudinal series. It is very common in spring, in houses. It is also found in carrion. (See Olivier, genus Necrobie, and Sch nh. Synon. Insect. I. 2, page 50.) We shall terminate this tribe by a sub-genus, in which the two last but one