Eyes are either preserved or lost; when preserved they are represented either by a single one-lensed ocellus or by an aggregation of such ocelli on each side of the head.
The antennae are many-jointed, and there is a singleocellus or a cluster of ocelli on each side of the head.
The females of these nine species resemble each other in their general type of coloration; and they likewise resemble both sexes of the species in several allied genera found in various parts of the world.
Both sexes and the young of the common jay are closely similar; but in the Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis) the young differ so much from their parents that they were formerly described as distinct species.
The shading above the white mark on the summit of the ocellus is here a little too dark.
The oblique stripe belonging to the uppermost ocellus (b) is barely represented by a very short irregular black mark with the usual, curved, transverse base.
In cases like these, the development of a perfectocellus does not require a long course of variation and selection.
An ocellus in an intermediate condition between the elliptic ornament and the perfect ball-and-socket ocellus.
Thus the formation of anocellus in its most elementary state appears to be a simple affair.
The lower margin or base of the dark-blue centre of the ocellus is deeply indented on the line of the shaft.
An ocellus consists of a spot within a ring of another colour, like the pupil within the iris, but the central spot is often surrounded by additional concentric zones.
A single ocellus is thus formed on each tail-covert, though still plainly betraying its double origin.
It should be particularly observed that each ocellus stands in obvious connection either with a dark stripe, or with a longitudinal row of dark spots, for both occur indifferently on the same feather.
In the very remarkable pattern of their wings, both show most marked characteristics; Io possesses a large ocellus on each wing, and Antiopa has a broad light yellow border which is not found in any other species of Vanessa.
Roncador stearnsi, the California roncador, is a large fish with a black ocellus at the base of the pectoral.
It is well marked by a black ocelluson the base of the tail.
Glyphisodon sordidus banded with pale and with a blackocellus below the soft dorsal is very common from Hawaii to the Red Sea, and is a food-fish of some importance.
The ocellus at the apex of the fore wings on the under side is faintly visible on the upper side.
The upper ocellus is generally bipupiled, that is to say, the black spot is twinned, and there are two small light spots in it.
The simple form of ocellus described in the foregoing paragraph may become folded into a pit or cup, the interior of which becomes filled with a clear gelatinous secretion forming a sort of vitreous body.
A similar ocellus is formed in Aurelia among the Scyphomedusae (q.
Section of a Statocyst andOcellus of Tiaropsis diademata; cf.
The doctrine of Ocellus was the general doctrine everywhere, it naturally occurring to all to make the same distinction.
And accordingly Ocellus Lucanus, the Disciple of Pythagoras, held that the principal cause of all sublunary effects resided in the Zodiac, and that from it flowed the good or bad influences of the planets that revolved therein.
Occasionally specimens have a minute ocellus below the large one on the fore-wings.
On the under side this last-mentioned ocellus is very frequently, but not invariably, present.
In some female specimens an extremely minute ocellus may be detected on the upper surface of the hind-wings near the termen.
On the upper side of the fore-wings there are sometimes only four, the minute ocellus on the costa being absent, whilst occasionally a small extra ocellus appears below the normal series.
Sanconiathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus have all attempted it in vain.
Sanconiathon, Manetho, Berosus, andOcellus Lucanus, have all attempted it in vain.
Diameter of ocellus: Maximal outside diameter of largest (not conspicuously ovoid or oblong) ocelluson carapace.
Ratio of diameter of ocellus to length of plastron (OD/PL) in T.
The minimal diameter of any ocellus recorded was one millimeter; solid dots on the carapace (hartwegi) were also recorded as one millimeter.
Sanchoniathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus, have all attempted it in vain.
When the ocellus consists of three or more circles.
When the ocellus includes a lunular spot of a different colour.
The indentation of the central disc and surrounding zones of the ocellus in both species of peacock, seems to me to speak plainly in favour of this view; and this structure is otherwise inexplicable.
Now as soon as the wing-feathers are held in this position, and the light shines on them from above, the full effect of the shading comes out, and each ocellus at once resembles the ornament called a ball and socket.
Even the oblique stripe belonging to the uppermost ocellus (b) is represented only by a very short irregular black mark with the usual, curved, transverse base.
Thus the formation of an ocellus in its simplest state appears to be a simple affair.
The broken state of the black ring on the upper side of the ocellus in fig.
He also translated Julian's discourse against Christianity and Ocellus Lucanus on the Eternity of the World.
Ocellus Lucanus, early Greek philosopher, who maintained the eternity of the cosmos.
Sanchoniathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus have all attempted it in vain," etc.
According to some philosophers these germs were celestial ideas which both gods and demons scattered from above over every part of nature, but according to Ocellus they arise continually under the influence of the heavenly bodies.
Though somewhat similar to that of Timaeus, it will be interesting to give an account of the ideas of one of these, Ocellus of Lucania.
Ocellus represents the universe as having a spherical form.
No better example of the latter can perhaps be mentioned here than the way in which Ocellus pretends to prove that the world is eternal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ocellus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
