Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38 and 39: Describing Many Newly Discovered, Important and Feritle Districts : with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, Volume 2Boone, 1841 - 482 pages |
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Page 406
... margin of the interfemoral mem- brane . Head and body , 1 2-12 ; tail 11-12 ; fore - arm bone , 1 2-12 . This species , Mr. Gould notes , flies quick and low over water . No. 7. Molossus australis - See Gray , Mag . Zool , and Bot . vol ...
... margin of the interfemoral mem- brane . Head and body , 1 2-12 ; tail 11-12 ; fore - arm bone , 1 2-12 . This species , Mr. Gould notes , flies quick and low over water . No. 7. Molossus australis - See Gray , Mag . Zool , and Bot . vol ...
Page 444
... margin , giving the back a netted appearance . Top of the head and nape black , with a yellow spot on the rostral scale on each side just before the eyes . Head small , the occipital plates large elongate ; the nasal plate triangular ...
... margin , giving the back a netted appearance . Top of the head and nape black , with a yellow spot on the rostral scale on each side just before the eyes . Head small , the occipital plates large elongate ; the nasal plate triangular ...
Page 444
... margin ; vertebral shields broad , six - sided , last subtriangu- lar ; beneath rather convex , yellow , shelving on the sides ; the second marginal plate with an angular lobe produced into the suture between the vertebral and first ...
... margin ; vertebral shields broad , six - sided , last subtriangu- lar ; beneath rather convex , yellow , shelving on the sides ; the second marginal plate with an angular lobe produced into the suture between the vertebral and first ...
Page 444
... margin to the plates ; the hinder part of the sternum is only slightly concavely truncated , and not deeply notched . It is also known from that old well - known species by its oblong depressed form , and by the form of the marginal ...
... margin to the plates ; the hinder part of the sternum is only slightly concavely truncated , and not deeply notched . It is also known from that old well - known species by its oblong depressed form , and by the form of the marginal ...
Page 456
... margin , a slight bend upwards , which forms a kind of tooth , projecting slightly over the somewhat dilated margin of the elytra , along the margin of these are at least eight points , at first seemingly impressed , but when more ...
... margin , a slight bend upwards , which forms a kind of tooth , projecting slightly over the somewhat dilated margin of the elytra , along the margin of these are at least eight points , at first seemingly impressed , but when more ...
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