This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...the third pair the dactylus is foliaceons. The third and fourth abdominal terga are armed each with a median recurved spine, in both sexes. The largest female in the Indian Museum collection has the carapace 28'5 millim. long, a smaller ovigerous female has the carapace 26'5 millim. long. "Wood-Mason ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...the third pair the dactylus is foliaceons. The third and fourth abdominal terga are armed each with a median recurved spine, in both sexes. The largest female in the Indian Museum collection has the carapace 28'5 millim. long, a smaller ovigerous female has the carapace 26'5 millim. long. "Wood-Mason established his two species on two specimens, one of which--L. channeri--had suffered a good deal from breakage and imperfect re-growth about the frontal region. A considerable series of the specimens since obtained shows that the two supposed species are really one. In the Indian Museum collection are numerous specimens, from the Andaman Sea 220 to 271 fms., from the Bay of Bengal 200 to 405 fathoms, and from both sides of Ceylon 296 to 406 fms. Uniform salmon-colour in life, white in spirit. EXPLANATION OF PLATES. Plate VI. Fig. 1. Calappa pustnlosa. 2. Calappa woodmasoni. 3. Pseudophilyra woodmasoni. 4. Lencosia corallicola... 5. Leucosia sima. 6. Leucosia truncata. 7. Pseudophilyra blanfordi. Plate VII. Fig. 1. Philyra corallicola. 2. Philyra sexangula. 3. Ebalia woodmasoni. 4. Ebalia diadumena. 5. Nursia blanfordi. 6. Nursia nasuta. 7. Nursia persica. Plate VIII. Fig. 1. Heteronucia vesiculosa. 2. Pariphicnlus rostratus. 3. Actseomorpha morum. 4. Tlos patella. On Croftia, a new Indo-Chinese genus of Scitamineae.--By G. King and D. Prain. Reed. Slat May, Bead 3rd June. With Plate IX. While engaged in sorting into the Calcutta Herbarium the material of the natural order Scitamineae received since 1892 (the date when the account of the family published in vol. vi. of the Flora of British India was completed) the writers met with a form...
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