"Gazella" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ptychoderes, having long slender antennae. In the Moluccas we find Cacia anthriboides, a small Longicorn which might be easily mistaken for a very common species of Anthribidae found in the same districts; and the very rare Capnolymma stygium closely imitates the common Mecocerus gazella, which abounded where it was taken. Doliops curculionoides and other allied Longicorns from the Philippine Islands most curiously resemble, both in form and colouring, the brilliant Pachyrhynchi,—Curculionidae, which are almost peculiar to that group ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace |
