Pale rim of carapace four or five times wider posteriorly than laterally; dark, straight or slightly curved, line connecting anterior margins of orbits spinifer emoryi, p.
The pale postocular stripe is usually interrupted, whereas the dark line connecting the anterior margins of the orbits is usually not interrupted; the two characters last mentioned show alliance with guadalupensis.
The slightly curved dark line connecting the anterior margins of the orbits is dimmer than the dark lines that extend forward from the eyes.
Width of carapace: Maximal, straight-line measurement between the lateral margins of the carapace.
Nearly every creature of the forests and arid plains over which it roams, and many which frequent the margins of the rivers and lakes, have to dread its voracious jaws.
The moose is of cautious and retiring habits, generally taking up his abode amid the mossy swamps found round the margins of the lakes, and which occupy the low ground in every direction.
It is also found in North-West Africa, where the males are greenish-blue with conspicuous black spots on the outer margins of the hind wings; this is the var.
The butterfly figured on Plate 120 is brownish-orange, with black veins and margins on all the wings.
Clearings in woods are generally the best places in which to find this pretty little Fritillary; but it also seems to have a fondness for the margins of brooks and rills, where these run through or by the sides of woods.
On the outer margins of the wings in some specimens there are more or less distinct traces of blackish crescents.
It is on the wing in grassy places on the slopes of downs and other hillsides, also in rides, and on the margins of woods, from early June until well into July, and sometimes even later in the year.
In an extraordinary aberration, taken in Sussex in 1897, the whole of the dark brown colour of margins and band is replaced by pale pinkish-ochreous, but the normal brownish orange remains.
I prefer Nature with wide margins and uncut leaves," she spoke, in her best platform manner.
These free swimming larvae, or gonophores, possess four radiating canals, passing from the digestive sac to the margins of the bell, and these are often the seat of colour.
The wing marginsare described as the Costal, which is the upper strong edge of the wing, the Hind margin, forming the outside, and the Inner margin, forming the base.
The margins of the disk and crest are often of a beautiful blue colour, and the canals of the disk become deep blue as they approach the crest.
In our English butterflies, for instance, out of the 62 species:-- 33 have plain marginsto the wings.
In these creatures, too, we find the earliest trace of sense organs, and consequently, the first highly differentiated organs, and they appear as richly coloured spots on the margins of the bell.
Gigantic mountain-chains were uplifted along their margins at so late a period as the Tertiary, and their shores still witness volcanic activity.
But while volcanic action has died out upon the Atlantic margins of both continents, it has continued during a prolonged geological period within the area of the Mediterranean depression.
A strong, grassy vegetation covered wide areas, and sedges and rushes luxuriated in marshy places and encroached upon the margins of the lakes.
We cannot tell why the coast-lands of the Atlantic should have attained at so early a period a stage of relative stability--why no axial uplifts should have been developed along their margins since Palaeozoic times.
We have seen that along the margins of each of the bordering continents the last series of great mountain-uplifts took place in Palaeozoic times.
It is upon the margins and within the trough of the Pacific Ocean, however, that subterranean action is now most remarkably developed.
In short, the Atlantic margins have reached a stage of comparative stability.
They are confined, therefore, to a comparatively narrow belt round the margins of continents and islands.
About 150 years ago the prevalent belief was that ancient sea-margins indicated a formerly higher ocean-level.
The blotting paper will absorb the excess of colour at the margins and enable you to secure an even coating up to the extreme edge.
Negative spherical aberration is due to over correction, the focus of the light passing through the margins being furthest from the lens, and the appearances on a screen are of course reversed.
Now suppose then, we have done this, but in doing it we are quite unable to prevent other objects coming into the field of view and occupying undesirable places near the margins of the picture, as for instance in fig.
If this be omitted the margins of the enlargement may become fogged by the lateral spreading action of the light.
The black paper prevents the passage of light and leaves white margins to the print.
We leave wide margins and ragged edges in this country, and both man and nature sprawl about at greater lengths than in the Old World.
A few paces farther on I enter a highway, one of the broadest I have seen, the roadbed hard and smooth as usual, about sixteen feet wide, with grassy margins twelve feet wide, redolent with white and red clover.
Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the fr\'91num, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums.
They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.
Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves.
Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the
Its wings are delicate light green, with a stripe of purple along the front edge of the anterior wings, the other margins being edged with pale yellow.
They stood with convenient intervals between them and with fair margins at top and bottom.
The healing of a corneal ulcer is characterized by the disappearance of pain where this has been a symptom and by the rounding off of its sharp margins as epithelium spreads over them from the surrounding healthy parts.
The relief of the surface is moderate, except around the synclinal troughs, where the rising margins of the hard beds still appear as ridges of more or less prominence.
Fruit and vegetables can be treated as still-life, in arabesques, and decorating the margins of single recipes.
For the purposes of the index the six books have been divided into a continuous series of 479 chapters, designated in the margins of the text by manuscript roman numerals, but in the index by printed numerals.
The bee vainly endeavored to crawl out again the same way it entered, but always fell backwards, owing to the margins being inflected.
These are waving or flat tracts of country, of greater or less extent, separated from each other by narrow skirts of woodland situated upon the margins of rivers and creeks.
Its surface is chequered with stripes of woodland situated upon the margins of the watercourses, and dividing the whole into extensive parterres.
Around the margins of this pool were innumerable little tracks in the earth.
For along the margins of the brook, the timber, fed by the flow of water, had been much denser and larger than the timber farther from the bank of the stream.
At the downward stroke the pressure of the air against the hind wings would raise them all to a nearly horizontal position, and at the same time bend up their posterior margins a little, producing an upward and onward motion.
Further, they are all constructed with a strong and rigid anterior margin, while the outer and hindermargins are exceedingly thin and flexible.
Margins of profit here are very small, but there is practically no loss in the matter of accounts, and a librarian is very satisfactory to deal with, as he usually knows what he wants.
On the return of the galley-proofs to the printer, the changes indicated on the margins are made by compositors selected for the purpose, and the galleys of type and the proofs are then turned over by them to the "make-up.
The mantle lobes are open in front, with the margins plaited, and the siphons, which are usually short, are provided with a number of little tentacles.
The mantle lobes are united behind, where they form a single siphonal opening; and the margins are double, with a row of eye-like spots on the inner edge of each.
The mantle of the animal is open, and the margins of the lobes fringed; and the small foot spins a powerful byssus.
The margins of the mantle are doubly fringed, and the byssus is extremely powerful.
The general form of these shells is oblong, and the margins are quite smooth.
The principal genus is Venus, in which the shells are ovate in form, thick, and smooth, and the margins of the valves are minutely crenulated.
The margins of the mantle lobes are thickened and united except where a small aperture is left for the protrusion of the finger-like foot.
It is much like the Venus shells in form, but the margins are not crenulated.
After some of the shoestring margins I've played on, twenty points sounds like the Bank of England, with certain portions of Broadway thrown in.
At the top of the stock is a cluster of long-stalked leaves, broadly heart-shaped in form, blunt, with crenate margins and a slightly downy surface.
A similar plant, from one to two feet high, common in bogs and ditches, and easily distinguished from other species of the genus by the four angles of the stem formed by the downward continuation of the margins of the leaves.
Its stem is stiff, hollow, slightly branched, and thickly covered with very prickly wings that are continuous with the margins of leaves above them.
Its leaves are elliptical, with apex terminating suddenly in a bristle-like point, and margins roughened by prickles that are either at right angles or pointing more or less forward.
In accordance with the will and the design of the architects, who merely stand by and gesticulate, the opposite margins approach, or the apex curls towards the base, or towards one of the sides to form a miniature funnel.
The projecting pointed lip is rarely found in aboriginal pottery, although I see no reason why such a feature may not readily have been suggested to the savage by the prolonged margins of his vessels of shell.
Rim margins are modified for decorative purposes, very much as they are in bowls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "margins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
