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Show 1888.] DR. H. GADOW ON THE REMIGES OF BIRDS. 655 Fig. 14. Miltochrista butleri, p. 603. 15. Eugoa ? obscura, p. 604. 16. Siccia maculata, p. 605. 17. Nola minutalis, p. 607. 18. Heterogenea fulgens, p. 609. 19. Northia tenuis, Butl., neuration of primary, p. 596. 20. sinensis, Walk., neuration of primary, p. 595. PLATE XXXI. 1. Epicopeia simulans, p. 611. 2. Seudyra venusta, p. 6l4. 3. Spilosoma bisecta, p. 618. 4. Bireta plumosa, p. 620. 5. Artaxa pulverea, p. 623. 6. Chcerotriche staudinyeri, p. 624. 7. Orgyia thyelino, Butl., 2 '•> 7 a, semiapterous $, p. 626. 8. Limantria albofascia, p. 629. 9. aurora, var. fusca, p. 6-9. 10. Ocneria furva, p. 631. 11. Rosama cinnamomea, p. 637. 12. Nola trianyulalis, p. 608. PLATE XXXII. 1. Edema nivilinea, p. 638. 2. Drymonia manleyi, p. 639. 3. delta, p. 640. 4. Datanoides approximans, p. 636. 5. Somera cyanea, p. 642. 6. Argyris maia, p. 647. 7. Drepana crocea, p. 649. 8. Cymatophora tristis, p. 652. 9. maxima, p. 653. 10. Polyploca ornata, p. 653 ; 10 a, var. unicolor, p. 654. 4. Remarks on the Numbers and on the Phylogenetic Development of the Remiges of Birds. By H A NS G A D O W , Ph.D., M.A., F.Z.S., Strickland Curator and Lecturer on the Advanced Morphology of Vertebrata in the University of Cambridge. [Received November 30, 1888.] PART I. The number and size of the primaries or metacarpo-digital quills have been examined by various ornithologists (Coues, Gerbe, Jeffries, Wallace1), and have often been used as taxonomic characters, 1 Principal Literature referred to in this Paper. NIT7SCH O L. System der Pterylographie. Halle, 1840. SUNDEVALL,' 0. J. " On the Wings of B U . " Ibis, 1886, pp. 389-457. Translated from the Swedish original in Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akad. Handhngar, 1-R4S W A L L A C E A. R. " On the Arrangement of the Families constituting the order Passeres." Ibis, 1874, pp. 406-416. 44* |
