 We come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of decay, variously blotched, and mildewed, and pierced with holes, and in many cases irregularly covered with powdery black dots, gathered...  Introduction to the Study of Biology - Seite 53von Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1872 - 163 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1872 - 882 Seiten
...come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves iu every stage of decay, variously blotched and mildewed...grow on dead leaves, that it is impossible to avoid thinkat first sight that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi." J The bee, fly,... | |
 | 1872 - 822 Seiten
...again he says of the leaf-butterfly, " we come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of...grow on dead leaves, that it is impossible to avoid thinkat first sight that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi." 1 The bee, fly,... | |
 | 1880 - 1118 Seiten
...not." In a certain leaf butterfly we come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of...dead leaves, that it is impossible to avoid thinking • Or. oit., p. 64. at first sight that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi.... | |
 | 1867 - 850 Seiten
...imitation of the venation of a leaf. We come now to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of...butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi. But this resemblance, close as it is, would be of little' use if the habits of the insect did not accord... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 414 Seiten
...imitation of the venation of a leaf. We come now to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of...butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi. But this resemblance, close as it is, would be of little use if the habits of the insect did not accord... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 458 Seiten
...imitation of the venation of a loaf. We come now to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of...powdery black dots gathered into patches and spots, BO closely resembling the various kinds of minute fungi that grow on dead leaves that it is impossible... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 Seiten
...imitation of the venation of a leaf. We come now to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of...butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi. But this resemblance, close as it is, would be of little use if the habits of the insect did not accord... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 412 Seiten
...the leaf butterfly, he says : l " We come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of...butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi." Here imitation has attained a development which seems utterly beyond the power of the mere " survival... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1871 - 496 Seiten
...of the leaf-butterfly, he says : " We come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of...butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi." Upon these passages our author remarks : " Here imitation has attained a development which seems utterly... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 388 Seiten
...to the leaf butterfly, he says:1 "We come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of...leaves, that it is impossible to avoid thinking at tirst sight that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi." Here imitation has attained... | |
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