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Excerpt from Observations on the Staphylinid Groups Aleocharinae and Xantholinini, Chiefly of AmericaAs on previous occasions, an asterisk will be prefixed to those subtribes, genera or other groups, which do not occur within the confines of America.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

Excerpt from Revision of the Stenini of America North of Mexico: Insects of the Family Staphylinidae, Order ColeopteraProthorax usually more or less elongated, always strongly convex and sometimes sub-cylindrical, often longitudinally canaliculated, and more or less tuberculate at the base.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction...

Excerpt from Parlor and Platform Recitals, Humorous Readings and Comic SongsThose were the days when thousands went over to fortune seek, The days of the great gold fever, and a manager thought the spot Good for a spec, and took us as actors among his lot.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. F...

Excerpt from Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Vol. 3: 1912Form oblong - oval, evenly convex, strongly shining, deep black, the tarsi slightly piceous, the antennae ferruginous, short, slender, with a broad and very abrupt club of three subequal transverse joints the last rounded at tip, head wider than long, strongly parabolic in outline, the eyes basal, well developed, prothorax two and three fourths times as wide as long, the sides strongly, evenl...

Excerpt from Memoirs on the Coleoptera, 1922, Vol. 10About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection i...

Excerpt from Memoirs on the Coleoptera, 1922, Vol. 10About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection i...

Excerpt from Coleopterological Notices, Vol. 4The following pages are principally confined to studies in our Rhynchophora, taken up some time since for the sole purpose of distributing the nondescript material, forming a considerable part of my cabinet, with a measurable degree of scientific order and succession. As usual in such cases, the compass of the work gradu ally outgrew the limited and personal objects had in view at the beginning, an...

Excerpt from Coleopterological Notices, Vol. 5In bringing together a number of short studies of our North American Coleoptera under the above title, the methods and objects held in view in the other parts of the present series are continued. The systematic revisions do not pretend to approach completeness, and are merely efforts to indicate the probable interrelationships of the species, based upon such material as it has been found possible t...

Excerpt from Descriptive Notices of North American Coleoptera, Vol. 1: With Plate VIIIn this connection it may be stated that it is my intention to include, if possible, Within the faunal region considered, the entire North American continent terminating on the south in the isthmus of Panama and including the islands of the west-indian archipelago, as this appears to consti tute a more natural region than that which is limited on the south by ...

Excerpt from A Revision of the American PaederiniIn the following pages 89 genera are defined in the tables of genera, of which 64 occur within the limits of the United States of America and 25 are exclusively foreign, these latter are distinguished in each case by a prefixed asterisk.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of a...

Excerpt from Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Vol. 7: 1916One source of confusion is that the word variation is generally misunderstood and the differences due to environment so attributed. These latter divergencies do not by any means indicate variation in the proper meaning of that word, but the beginnings of separate species, at first as slightly different taxonomic forms and finally as true species. Such forms unless very distinct, as in the cas...

Excerpt from Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Vol. 9: 1920The Platyninae form an extensive and important element in the Carabid fauna of the northern hemisphere, but are very much more developed in North America than in Europe. The genus Platynus Bon., itself, I hold to be exclusively European, our Wingless species constituting three or more allied genera, of which Rhadine Lec., stands widely apart in general appearance from any other type of the su...

Excerpt from Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Vol. 5: 1914This genus, as known at present, may be divided into three passably well defined subgenera as follows'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the orig...

Excerpt from Studies in the American BuprestidæA - N early similar to the preceding but Shorter, the prothorax somewhat Shorter, more strongly punctured, less narrowed anteriorly, the head relatively still larger, elytra shorter, more obtuse behind, the series of punctures scarcely at all impressed and the punctuation laterally less confused and scarcely more close-set than toward the suture, tibia Shorter, more outwardly expanded at apex and ...

Studies in the Ptinidae, Cioidae and Sphindidae of America is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques...

Excerpt from A Revision of the Tenebrionid Subfamily ConintinaThis genus is represented at present by one or two species, among the largest of the entire subfamily and possessing many peculiarities of structure and sculpture. The epipleura are very wide and almost even in width in about basal half, be tween the simple inner margin of the infiexed part of the elytra and the acute and very narrowly refiexed lateral mar gins, and the elytral scul...

Excerpt from Memoirs on the Coleoptera, Vol. 6: 1915The primary divisions of the Scarabaeidae are not rigorously definable and, in fact, after so long a period of geologic evolution, it would be illogical to imagine any other condition than an inter blending of structural characters to such a degree as to render delimitation of extended groups, in other than a general way, more or less unsatisfactory. There is scarcely a structural feature def...

Excerpt from Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Late Lyceum of Natural History, 1889-1891, Vol. 5Art. II. - Cole0pterologica1 Notices I. Art. VIL - Coleopterological Notices II.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstru...

Excerpt from Coleopterological Notices, Vol. 4 Elytra devoid of erect setae, beak only very slightly longer in the female, basal joint of the anterior male tarsi a little shorter than the remainder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to ...

Excerpt from Coleopterological Notices, Vol. 5 In bringing together a number of short studies of our North American Coleoptera under the above title, the methods and objects held in view in the other parts of the present series are continued. The systematic revisions do not pretend to approach completeness, and are merely efforts to indicate the probable interrelationships of the species, based upon such material as it has been found possible...