EditorialGrasses 2, Fig. 1: A new species belonging to the genus Cypergr?ser, discovered by Mr. D. Thunberg on the island of Java, and named by Mr. Houttuyn Cyperus iavanicus, Fig. 2: Scirpus capillaris from Zeylon, Fig. 3: Scirpus, cephalotes from Zeylon, plat...
EditorialCryptocerus, Print, Cephalotes is a Neotropical genus of tree-dwelling ant species, commonly known as turtle ants. All appear to be gliding ants, with the ability to "parachute" and steer their fall so as to land back on the tree trunk rather than fall...
EditorialMacrotomia densiflora (Macrotomia cephalotes). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialScarab and dung beetles: Onitis belial 1, Phanaeus ensifer 2, Copris lunaris 3, Lethrus cephalotes 4, Geotrupes stercorarius 5, and Agaocephala latreillii 6. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849.
EditorialFossil skeletons of extinct spiny creeper shell Cerithium giganteum, living Japanese giant salamander, Andrias japonicus (Cryptobranchus japonicus), fossil fish Platax altissumus and Lebias cephalotes, print of bird, and skeleton of middle monkey Mesop...