The Canadian Entomologist, Volumes 5-6

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Entomological Society of Canada, 1873 - Entomology
 

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Page 31 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Page 19 - For these reasons, we have no hesitation in adopting as our fundamental maxim, the " law of priority," viz. § 1. The name originally given by the founder of a group or the describer of a species should be permanently retained, to the exclusion of all subsequent synonyms...
Page 54 - B. It is recommended that the assemblages of genera termed families should be uniformly named by adding the termination idee to the name of the earliest known, or most typically characterized genus in them ; and that their subdivisions, termed subfamilies, should be similarly constructed, with the termination ince.
Page 46 - Labial palpi white, each joint tipped externally wit •) dark steel gray. Antennae of the general hue, faintly annulate with whitish. Thorax and primaries dark steel gray, the primaries with about nine faint whitish costal streaks, the first near the base and the last at the apex, becoming gradually longer from the base to the apex, all faintly...
Page 110 - The President, or, in his absence, the Vice-President, shall preside at all meetings of the Society and of the Executive Committee.
Page 87 - From all the above facts I infer that all our species that are found only in the female sex are represented in another generation by both sexes, and that the two broods are, owing to seasonal differences, produced from galls, that are entirely distinct from each other.
Page 95 - ... until early in June. The wings, which are transparent with a shining surface and metallic hue, measure when expanded about half an inch across , the veins are black, and there is also a streak of black along the front margin extending more than half way towards the tip of the wing. The anterior part of the body is black, the abdomen dark reddish. In common with some other species of Selandria, these flies have a...
Page 110 - The following resolutions were also unanimously passed: "Resolved, That the members of the American Entomological Society and the Entomological Society of Ontario, together with all other persons interested in entomological science, be cordially invited to attend and take part in the proceedings. "Resolved, That the secretary be requested to publish notices of the meeting in such periodicals devoted to natural history, and especially in those devoted to entomology as are published on the continent;...
Page 27 - Traite d'Ornithologie,' where many species are enumerated by name, without any description or reference by which they can be identified. Therefore § 12. A name which has never been clearly defined in some published work should be changed for the earliest name by which the object shall have been so defined.
Page 209 - Shining silvery white, each joint of the antennae (except the basal one) is dotted above with dark brown. Primaries with a blackish or •dark brown shining almost triangular spot at the apex, with three pale and indistinct brownish costal streaks before it ; the first of these streaks is the shortest and most indistinct, and is placed at the beginning of the •ciliae. The second is a little more distinct and sometimes extends entirely across the wing, and the third one always does so after dividing...

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