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Términos y frases comunes
Acad acute Adams Amnicola Ancylus animal aperture apex basal base beaks body whirl breadth Cabinet series calcaneum Canines cardinal teeth Chinook color columella Conch Conr Conrad convex Cyclas Cyrena DEKAY denticles Diam elongated epidermis figure flattened Gabb genus Gould H. C. Lea hair Haldeman horn-color inch incisors Inoceramus interfemoral membrane Journ KÜSTER labrum Lake Lasiurus last whirl lateral teeth length Limnæa Lingual dentition Mamook margin Meek & Hayden Melampus Molars N. Y. Moll narrow oblique obtuse Operculum outer lip oval ovate Paludina peristome Phila Physa Pisidium Planorbis posterior premolar Proc Remarks River rounded Scotophilus shell Shumard side slightly species specimens Sphærium spire striæ striated surface suture synonymy tail tentacles thin tooth tragus transverse umbilicus upper Vespertilio Vicks Vivipara W. G. Binney whirls five Zool
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Página xvii - I stood amazed, but he continued jumping and running round and round, until he was fairly exhausted: when he begged me to procure one of the animals for him, as he felt convinced they belonged to "a new species.
Página xix - ... the room by the artificial light and impelled by their own natural craving. The slaughter commenced and progressed with sanguinary vigor for several hours, or until brought to a close by the weariness of dealing the blows that made the enemy bite the dust, and overpowered by the heat and closeness of the apartment. This plan succeeded perfectly. After a few evenings of similar exercise, in which the batteurs became quite expert in the use of their weapon, every wielding of the wooden bat bringing...
Página 132 - Shell small, somewhat transparent, of a brownish yellow-color; both sides concave, the left rather more than the right, but the concavity is there more limited by the presence of a sub-angular ridge on the outer whorl ; whorls three, the outer one rapidly increasing ; surface exhibiting traces of revolving lines when denuded, but usually covered with a dark pigment or epidermis, bristling with rigid hairs, which are arranged in close revolving lines ; lines of growth very faint; aperture sub-oval,...
Página 38 - Shell fragile, very much elongated, narrow, honey-yellow, tinctured with brownish, translucent, slightly reflected from the middle : volutions six, oblique, wrinkled transversely ; spire more than one and...
Página 106 - Shell sinistral; whorls about five, glabrous or obsoletely rugose, polisned, destitute of any appearance of carina; spire perfectly regular, a little concave; umbilicus large, regularly and deeply concave, exhibiting all the volutions to the summit; aperture declining, remarkably oblique with respect to the transverse diameter. . Breadth nearly nine-tenths of an inch. Inhabits South Carolina.
Página xx - I had recourse to a plan which had been recommended, but was not carried out in regard to the- dwellinghouse. I employed a slater to remove a portion of the slating which required repairing. This process discovered some fifteen hundred or two thousand bats, of which the larger number were killed, and the remainder sought the barn, trees, and other places of concealment in the neighborhood.
Página xix - ... and gnats testified), they would re-enter their habitation, again to emerge at the first signal of their feathered trumpeter. I thus ascertained one very important fact, namely, that the bat, or the species which annoyed us, ate and drank twice in twenty-four hours.
Página 6 - FOOT not transversely divided beneath. Shell pupa-shaped, very thin, transparent, with but few whorls ; aperture sub-oval, with one dentiform columellar fold, sometimes obsolete ; parietal wall with one or two teeth ; peristome expanded, terminations not approximating, the right hand one with one internal tooth. Jaw slightly arched, without ribs or marginal denticulations, hardly striated towards the margin. Teeth in slightly bent cross series, central equilateral, narrow, But very few species of...
Página 4 - Jaw narrow, slightly arcuate, extremities but little attenuated, strise obsolete, scarcely any median projection. Shell oblong-ovate, thin, spire pointed ; last whorl large, rounded at base ; aperture rather broad, oval, acuminating; parietal wall furnished with from one to five tuberculous laminae; columellar fold oblique ; peristome expanded, armed with teeth, or thickened within.
Página 84 - Catatcopium, hut is of a darker colour and longer than its shell, the tentacula also are longer, and setaceous ; tail acute. The mantle is trifid at the base of the pillar lip, and at the upper corner of the aperture ; deposits eggs the beginning of May; eggs enveloped by a transparent gelatinous substance ; the nucleus, after a few days, appears of a pale or milk white colour, and not so well defined as those of L.