Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 11The Society, 1889 |
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abdominal Adelaide angles angulated antennæ antice apex basal beds at Muddy breadth Cancellaria capite prothoraceque Coccinellida colour columella columella with four Cooper Creek Cooper Creek Howitt costa costæ depressed diameter Dimensions.-Length elongate elytra elytron Enlarged epipleuræ excluding pullus Family female flat fossils front genus half Hergott Innaminka insect joints Lake Eyre Lake Frome lamellæ last whorl length of aperture lirate Locality.-Lower beds margin McCoy medially mesosternum minus Mitra Muddy Creek Murray Cliffs narrow nitidus nodulations oblique ornamented outer lip thin ovate penultimate whorl plaits Plate Port Lincoln posterior whorls postice prosternum prothorax pubescens pullus punctulatis puncturation ribs River Murray River Murray Cliffs rounded Schnapper Point Shell slender smooth South Australia spec species specimen spinnerets spiral threads spirally ridged spire stout Strangways striæ striated Strzelecki Creek subtiliter surface suture Tate Terebra tertiary testaceis testaceous tibiæ transverse tubercles ventral segments ventricose Voluta Warburton River Woods
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Page 23 - I understand, of about one hundred miles from the Charlotte Waters Telegraph Station, on the overland line from Adelaide to Port Darwin, but the exact circumstances of its capture are not yet to hand. The collector, however, reports that it must be of rare occurrence, as on questioning the aboriginals of the locality, there was only one old woman who said she had seen it before, and that upon a single occasion. It is evidently an underground burrowing animal, resembling somewhat the Cape Mole (Chrysochloris)...
Page 223 - Act ; and that the meeting do now proceed to comply with the requirements of the Act of Incorporation. — Carried. Mr. Saunders then gave notice that at the next meeting of the Society, he would move that the Constitution be amended so as to bring it into accordance with the A ct of Incorporation.
Page 23 - Chrysochloris, has a rounded muzzle, the dorsal surface of which is covered by a horny shield. Nostrils transversely slit-like. No eyes visible, the skin passing uninterruptedly over the ocular region, but on reflecting the skin on one side of the face a small circular pigment spot is visible in the position of the eye. No apparent bony orbit. Tongue fleshy, broad at the base and tapering to a blunt point. No external ears, but the ear-openings distinct, 1 mm. wide, and covered over with fur. The...
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Page 243 - ... der KK Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien ; vol. XXXVI., parts 3, 4, 9. Warsaw — Langue Internationale. Preface et Manuel complet. By Dr. Esperanto. Washington — Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 1 ; 1887, No. 2. Scientific Writings of Joseph Henry ; vols. I., II. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-3. United States Geological Surveys. — Monographs ; vol. X., Dinocerta ; vol. XI., Lake Lahontan....
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Page 157 - The keel is serrately crenulated ; the posterior area with a. median spiral thread, arched transverse strise, and oblique plications, which become obsolete before reaching the suture. Aperture quadrately oval, angulated at the keel and at the base of the pillar. Outer lip crenulated on the thin edge, lirate within. Columella with a slight twist at the front, and with three distinct folds above it. Dimensions. — Length, 13-5 ; breadth, 7; length of aperture, 7. Localities. — Lower beds at Muddy...
Page 105 - The abdomen (e) ends in two median lobes with at each side a few spines ; pygidium exhibiting five groups of spinnerets, but only two or three in each group. The larva (f) is of the normal form of the Diaspid group, but the rostrum, as shown in the figure, appears to be abnormally large.
Page 166 - It is hardly possible to recognise in the shell, which I have figured, an adult example of the very juvenile specimen which is the author's type of the species ; but I have had that under examination, and have been able readily to trace it through a long series of graduating specimens. In its adult state the species closely resembles C. fimbriata, recent in Southern Australia, from which it differs particularly by the spiral sculpture.