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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II—Physical Science 1880

1880

Thus Profensor Huxley when treating of the dentition of the genus.Rlyinoceros observes : " Of the four milk-molars the first as in the Horse is smaller than the others and is not replaced ;" two pages back in the same work however the Professor gives the formula of the premolars as =4 - which would imply either that the first tooth of the molar series is replaced or else that it is recko [...] Another instance of the development of the second incisor of one side of the upper jaw is afforded by the skull belonging to a mounted skeleton of an old individual of B. indices in the Indian Museum in which all the teeth of the permanent series are much worn. [...] say corresponding to the ones forming the principal part of the blotch in the male of almost as rich and pure a colour as in that sex ; and that one of the two former has the spot at the end of the cell and the submarginal markings of both fore-wings obsolete and is thus still further approximated to the male ; do certainly seem to me to tell rather for than against the above supposition. [...] This malformation is interesting as showing in the same specimen the instability of this character the strong tendency to the assumption of the male form of wing exhibited in the lengtheing of the lobule next in order and the unmistakable reversion' to the rounded form of wing in the suppression of the rudimentary tail. [...] In this specimen both the wings of the left side are truly female but on the opposite aide the posterior portion of the fora-wing from the first discoidal vcdnlet to the inner margin on the upper side only and the anterior portion of the hind-wing frothe costal margin to the second branch of the sub.cestal on both sides exhibit the masculine livery not unminglod with female characters (Conf.
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Pages
52
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
XI—Notes on the Dentition of Rhinoceros—By R. Lydekker B.A.
135-141 The Natural History Secretary view
XII—On a Species of Trochalopterum from Travancore. By W.T. Blanford F.R.S.
142-144 The Natural History Secretary view
XIII—On a New Species of Papilio from South India with Remarks on the Species Allied Thereto—By J. Wood-Mason Officiating Superintendent Indian Museum and Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology Medical College Calcutta
144-149 The Natural History Secretary view
XIV—Description of the Female of Hebomoia Roepstorffii. By J. Wood-Mason
150-150 The Natural History Secretary view
XV—Notes on and Drawings of the Animals of Various Indian Land Mollusca (Puhnonifera)—By Lieut.-Col. H.H. Godwin-Austen F.R.S. F.Z.S. &c.
151-158 The Natural History Secretary view
XVI—New Species of Brackish-Water Mollusks. By Geoffrey Nevill C.M.Z.S.
159-166 The Natural History Secretary view
XVII—On Some Experiments Instituted to Supply all the Lines Lerminating at the Calcutta Telegraph Office with Currents Tapped from the Main-Current Produced by a Dynamo-Clectric Machine.—By Louis Schwendler M. Inst. C.E.
167-174 The Natural History Secretary view
XVIII—On the Lepidopterous Genus Æmona with the Description of a New Species.—By J. Wood-Mason
175-178 The Natural History Secretary view
XIX—Description of a New Papilio from the Andaman Islands.—By J. Wood-Mason
178-180 The Natural History Secretary view
Backmatter
i-iv The Natural History Secretary view

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