Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 17Royal Society of New Zealand., 1885 - Science Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57. |
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Abdomen Antennæ anteriorly Aperture apex rounded Arthur's Pass Auckland band basal joint white base blackish body whorl breadth broad brown cephalothorax cilia cilia white cilia whitish claviform colour columella convex costa coxæ curved dark fuscous dark grey dark-margined darker defence densely diameter dorsal elongate feet female flat forest Forewings fuscous-grey genus glabrous grey line grey-whitish hairs harbour Head hindmargin Hindwings Hook inches long inner margin irrorated Island Krakatoa Lake Wakatipu Legs length lines long lobes longitudinal lower male maxilla middle moderately Mount Anglem Mount Hutt Mountain side N.Z. Inst narrow Norsewood oblique obscurely obtuse ochreous ochreous-whitish Orakei orbicular Otago oval ovate pair pale palpi plants posterior posteriorly reniform ribs second line segments Shell sinuate slender slightly South Island species specimens spines spiral spot Stewart Island straight streak suffused tarsi thorax tibiæ Trans triangular upper veins Waipawa Wanganui Wellington whitish-ochreous Zealand
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Page 357 - The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, " When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Page 442 - ... as twenty in number. The bird does not sit upon the eggs, but leaves them to be hatched by the heat of the sun. The young birds are fully fledged when they emerge from the egg, and take care of themselves without any assistance from the parent bird.
Page 392 - See also the report of 1884 of a royal commission "to inquire into the instruction of the industrial classes of certain foreign countries in technical and other subjects, for the purpose of comparison with that of the corresponding classes in this country; and into the influence of such instruction on manufacturing and other industries at home and abroad.
Page 360 - THE summer of the year 1783 was an amazing and portentous one, and full of horrible phenomena ; for, besides the alarming meteors and tremendous thunder-storms that affrighted and distressed the different counties of this kingdom, the peculiar haze, or smoky fog, that prevailed for many weeks in this island, and in every part of Europe, and even beyond its limits, was a most extraordinary appearance, unlike anything known within the memory of man.
Page 59 - ... Island one, and shows some slight differences, but only such as are frequently found between members of the same species. Such being the case, I cannot do better than quote Professor Hutton's description. "Animal. — Body oblong, rounded behind, smooth, spotted with violet : eyes large, prominent ; siphuncle united to the base of the arms by a lateral membrane ; arms tapering, except the dorsal pair, which are palmate at the end, these are the shortest, the next pair to them the longest, and...
Page xix - Society by two members, and on payment of the annual subscription of one guinea for the year then current. 5. Members may at any time become life-members by one payment of ten pounds and ten shillings in lieu of future annual subscriptions.
Page 51 - ... apophysis from its extremity, on the outer side ; the digital joint is oval, convex and hairy externally...
Page 131 - Lower median vein of hindwings pectinated with hairs towards base ; vein 2 of forewings rising before posterior third of lower margin of cell ; genital uncus of male not developed. I am indebted to Professor Fernald, well known as a special authority on this group, for the information on which this change is founded. He states that the genital uncus never...
Page xiii - SEPTEMBEB, 1870. Honorary Members. Whereas the rules of the Societies incorporated under the New Zealand Institute Act provide for the election of Honorary Members of such Societies ; but inasmuch as such Honorary Members would not thereby become members of the New Zealand Institute, and whereas it is expedient to make provision for the election of Honorary Members of the New Zealand Institute, it is hereby declared — 1st.
Page 382 - ... an altitude of 62 miles, and that the air there is a perfect non-conductor of statical electricity without interfering with the mutual repulsion of similarly electrified particles ; and when we bear in mind that the particles of minute dust are many thousands of times smaller and lighter than the gold leaves operated upon, there is every reason to believe that electrified dust, even projected 50 or 60 miles high, might remain there many years.