 | 1920 - 384 páginas
...Westwood (1839) has recorded that specimens of a Brachinus of large size from South America, when captured "immediately began to play off their artillery, burning...leaving a mark which remained for a considerable time." The odor of rose or hyacinth given out by certain Cicindelida*, or the fragrance exhaled by the European... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1888 - 332 páginas
...resembling a miniature gun. Westwood mentions, on the authority of Burchell, that on one occasion, " whilst resting for the night on the banks of one of...flesh to such a degree that only a few specimens could becaptured withthenaked hand, leaving a mark which remained a considerable time. Upon ob* Westwood,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1888 - 400 páginas
...captured, proved to be specimens of a large species of 1'rachinns. On being seized, they immediately begun to play off their artillery, burning and staining the flesh to such a degree that only a few specimenscouldbecaptured withthenaked hand, leaving a mark which remained a considerable time. Upon... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - 492 páginas
...resembling a miniature gun. Westwood mentions, on the authority of Burchell, that on one occasion, " whilst resting for the night on the banks of one of...few specimens could be captured with the naked hand, and leaving a mark which remained a considerable time. Upon observing the whitish vapour with which... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - 490 páginas
...one occasion, " whilst resting for the night on the banks of one of 84 THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE CHAP. the large South American rivers, he went out with...few specimens could be captured with the naked hand, and leaving a mark which remained a considerable time. Upon observing the whitish vapour with which... | |
 | New York Entomological Society - 1895 - 512 páginas
...paper red. Westwood states that individuals of a large South American Brachinus on being seized ' ' immediately began to play off their artillery, burning...that only a few specimens could be captured with the native hand, leaving a mark which remained for a considerable time." The fluid ejected by another species... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - 1898 - 766 páginas
...paper red. Westvvood states that individuals of a large South American Rrachinus on being seized " immediately began to play off their artillery, burning...leaving a mark which remained for a considerable time." The fluid ejected by another species, in Tripoli, blackened the fingers of the collector. " It is neither... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - 1898 - 772 páginas
...blue paper red. Westwood states that individuals of a large South American Brachinus on being seized "immediately began to play off their artillery, burning and staining the flesh to such a degree TEXT-BOOK OF ENTOMOLOGY that only a few specimens could be captured with the naked hand, leaving a... | |
 | 1893 - 900 páginas
...when captured, proved to be specimens of a large species of Brachinus. On being seized, these beetles immediately began to play off their artillery, burning and staining the flesh of the capturer to such a degree that only a few specimens could be captured with the naked hand, and... | |
 | Justus Watson Folsom - 1906 - 514 páginas
...staining the human skin a rust-red color. Individuals of a large South American Brachinus when seized " immediately began to play off their artillery, burning...leaving a mark which remained for a considerable time." (Westwood.) As malodorous insects, Hemiptera are Osmeterium of Papilio notorious, though IlOt a few... | |
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American rivers, he went out with a lantern to make an astronomical observation, accompanied by one of his black servant boys ; and as they were proceeding, their attention was directed to numerous beetles running about upon the shore, which, when captured,... 
