| William Jardine - 1835 - 412 pages
...noctiluca, Dejean. It is upwards of an inch long, and one third of an inch broad. The colour is a uniform obscure blackish brown, and the body is everywhere covered with a short light-brown pubescence. The thorax is pretty convex, and there are two small depressions (at least... | |
| Daniel Parish Kidder, James Cooley Fletcher - 1857 - 744 pages
...with its three luminosities, which I could now distinctly see. This was the pyrophorus noctilueus, so well known to every traveller in the Antilles and...brown, and the body is everywhere covered with a short, lightbrown pubescence. When it walks or is at rest, the principal light it emits issues from the two... | |
| Daniel Parish Kidder, James Cooley Fletcher - 1857 - 693 pages
...with its three luminosities, which I could now distinctly see. This was the pyrophorus noctilucus, so well known to every traveller in the Antilles and...brown, and the body is everywhere covered with a short, lightbrown pubescence. When it walks or is at rest, the principal light it emits issues from the two... | |
| James Duncan - 1858 - 408 pages
...noctiluca, Dejean. It is upwards of an inch long, and one third of an inch broad. The colour is a uniform obscure blackish brown, and the body is everywhere covered with a short light-brown pubescence. The thorax is pretty convex, and there are two small depressions (at least... | |
| Daniel Parish Kidder, James Cooley Fletcher - 1879 - 744 pages
...This was the pyrophorus noctilucus, so well known to every traveller in the Antilles and in Tropioul America. It is of an obscure, blackish brown, and the body is everywhere covered with a short, lightbrown pubescence. When it walks or is at rest, the principal light it emits issues from the two... | |
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