The eggs number from ten to fifteen and are of an ochreous white.
Its broad, swift stream was bringing down great deposits of ochreousgravels and of sands interstratified with loams and clays.
The salt, when taken out, and freed by scraping from any adhering ochreous or other impurities, is ready for the market, being sold in hollow spherical masses.
The same ore is found in strata or in veins among secondary rocks, associated now and then with ochreous iron-oxide and calamine (carbonate of zinc); and it is sometimes disseminated in grains through more recent strata.
From the mixture of copperas and verdigris employed in the hat-dye, a vast quantity of an ochreous muddy precipitate results, amounting to no less than 25 per cent.
The caterpillar is dingy ochreous or whity brown marked with wavy darker stripes.
Tutt, and one almost entirely ochreous or greyish-ochreous, ab.
In this species the ground colour of the fore wings varies from whity brown to ochreous brown with a slight reddish tinge.
Sich, is pale ochreous brown, lined and striped with darker brown.
A less frequent aberration has the wings dark brown or blackish all over, except a row of whitish or ochreous spots on the outer margins (ab.
The central band of the fore wing is blacker, without ochreous clouding below the middle, and the edges are not wavy.
The caterpillar is slaty grey inclining to purplish, with a series of not clearly defined ochreous diamonds on the back and a row of ochreous dots on each side; the raised points on the last ring are tipped with reddish (Plate 116).
White, more or less tinged with ochreous or ochreous grey in the male, is the general colour of this moth; the wings are crossed by several ochreous lines, the third line of the fore wings and the second line of the hind wings rather wavy.
Snow had not yet rested upon its grassy convexities, which still wore the ochreous hues of autumn, and were flushed in places by a detritus of red, volcanic stone.
The black body which saw now damaged and partly buried, but which, nevertheless, I no longer felt was dead but acutely alive and perceiving, I mixed up with the ochreous slash under my uncle's face.
The fore wings are ochreous yellow, crossed by two nearly parallel lines of dark brown.
They are of a pale ochreous brown colour, with a row of small black dots along the hind margin.
The hind wings are also very dark brown, and rather prettily spotted with anochreous tint.
Its fore wings are ochreous and glossy, with a silvery streak from the base, running almost parallel with the costal margin.
The fore wings are also of a greyish or ochreous brown, and the black margin of the hind wings is proportionately narrower.
The Buff Ermine has all four wings of a buff or ochreous tint, and spotted with black as here represented.
Its fore wings are ochreous grey, with a narrow brown costal margin, and a triangular brown patch on the costa.
The reniform is generally more conspicuous, a portion of it being of a light ochreous colour.
Its fore wings are grey, with generally either an ochreous or reddish tinge.
On the under side the wings of the male are shining white, except the costa, which is evenly dull ochreous from the base to the apex.
In 1855 the skull of the musk ox (Bubalus moschatus) was also found in the ochreous gravel of Maidenhead, by the Reverend C.
The most marked feature of this alluvium in the Thames valley is that great bed of ochreous gravel, composed chiefly of broken and slightly worn Chalk flints, on which a great part of London is built.
Next below, loam or bone-earth, of an ochreous red colour, with angular stones and some pebbles, from 2 to 13 feet in thickness.
Brown loam with some angular flints, in parts passing into ochreous gravel, filling up indentations on the surface of Number 3, 3 feet thick.
They were mostly shed horns, and of young animals; and had been washed into the rent with other bones, and with angular fragments of limestone, and all enveloped in the same ochreous mud.
Both the quartzose sand, of which it chiefly consists, and the included shells, are most commonly distinguished by a deep ferruginous or ochreous colour, whence its name.
They are most commonly stained of the same ochreous colour as the flints of the gravel in which they are imbedded.
The side next the sun is often dingy, brownish, orochreous red.
The side next the sun is often dull brownish or ochreous red.
Striped with vermilion on a ground of ochreous earth, with strange devices on the forehead and cheeks, it resembled a painted escutcheon more than a human face.
With the ochreous tint extracted from his skin, and the curl combed out of his hair, Blue Dick might have passed for a brother of Blount Blackadder.
This speech was reported to Stratokles, and Demochares was forced to go into exile.
The sunburnt roofs, warm ochreous walls, and blue shadows of the capital, wear their usual aspect except for a few feeble attempts at decoration.
In colour it is ochreous with a pinkish tinge; a pale brownish plate on first and last rings, each edged with blackish and that on the first ring traversed by a white line; head pale brown, glossy.
Hind wings blackish on upper margin, pinkish on outer margin, and ochreous tinged with olive between; fringes chequered whitish, sometimes tinged with pink.
The more or less brownish-tinged, whitish-ochreous species shown on Plate 146, Figs.
The caterpillar is pale ochreousbrown minutely freckled with darker; the lines on the back are blackish, but indistinct; usual dots margined with black; head pale brown, marked with darker.
The caterpillar is ochreous brown, varying in tint, above and pale green below the brown spiracles; the head is rather yellowish and very glossy.
When full grown a loosely woven cocoon is formed on the ground beneath the food plant, or other herbage, and therein the caterpillar changes to an ochreous grey or brownish chrysalis.
In its typical form the fore wings are pale greyish with a yellowish front edging; the latter most distinct towards the base; the hind wings are whitish ochreous more or less suffused with grey.
Fore wings, leaden grey with a yellow stripe terminating in a point at the tip of the wing; the hind wings are pale ochreous yellow.
The caterpillar is ochreous or grey brown, marked with blackish; a conspicuous character is a black-edged whitish or ochreous patch on ring ten; the hairs are whitish, those on the sides rather long.
The caterpillar is pale ochreous white with conspicuous black dots; head ochreous brown, the plate on first ring of the body is blackish with white lines upon it.
The caterpillar is ochreous grey, whitish tinged with pink, or greenish; the lines and spots are greyish, and the spiracles large and black; head and plate on first ring ochreous brown.
Petals yellow at the base, set with a quantity of short, stiff black hairs; changing to ochreous dun, the upper half bearing a dusky brownish network.
The pale ochreous tone of one parent and the purple of the other have produced a very remarkable result in combination.
White, with a faint ochreous tinge; covered throughout, saving the margin, with crimson spots, which form almost a blotch in the midst of the dorsal.
Laura Kimball, on the other hand, is all ochreous yellow, save the handsome white crown of the dorsal and a narrow white margin descending from it.
Slipper, ochreous yellow, dotted with crimson at top and netted with green.
Dorsal and petalsochreous white, with a faint crimson flush; all densely covered with minute crimson dots.
Next in age to this basaltic platform comes a patch of ochreous sand and gravel (No.
The Red crag is distinguished by the deep ferruginous or ochreouscolour of its sands and fossils, the Coralline by its white colour.
At the end of April it moults for the last time, and is then pale ochreous generally, but some caterpillars are darker than this, and some paler with a greenish-grey tinge.
The caterpillar when full grown is velvety black with two bright yellow lines along the back; the spines are of a reddish-ochreous colour with the extreme tips and branches black.
The head is pale ochreous green, with warts and bristles as on the body.
The head is ochreous with dark brown markings in front.
The chrysalis is of a pale ochreous colour, streaked and mottled with brownish; the hollow part of the back has a brilliant golden sheen, and the points on the rest of the body are gold tipped.
The egg is at first deep ochreous yellow, changing through olive brown to red brown, and a day or two before the larva hatches out becoming leaden grey.
According to others it is ochreous or brownish-grey, with a dark brown line on the back, a pale one with darker edge on the sides, and a whitish stripe above the feet.
The chrysalis is brown on the thorax and the body; the wing-cases are more ochreous and marked with black near the edge.
Body black, incrusted withochreous grey on the sides, and on the back marked with ochreous grey on the hinder half of each ring; dorsal line white.
The female is generally whiter and larger than the male, and has the basal half of the costa, or front margin of the fore wing ochreous brown, and the markings on the under side of the hind wings are tinged with the same colour.
The caterpillar in the adult stage is black, with a speckled dark ochreous band traversed by a black central line on the back; the sides are dappled with ochreous grey; the under parts are brown dappled with darker, and merging into the black.
The men of Simbo (Narovo Island) streak their countenances with lime, whilst the boys of Treasury Islands sometimes paint their faces around the eyes with the red ochreous earth that they employ for staining the hair.
Her clean skin and bushy head of hair, dyed a magenta hue by the use of red ochreous earth, added to the general effect of her appearance.
Away off the brown wooded hills rose; snow lay in thin crust-like patches here and there, and again the earth wore the pallid gray of the crab-grass or the ochreous red of the gully-washed clay.
Only one horizontal rift gave glimpses of a dazzling ochreous tint of indescribable brilliancy, from the focus of which the divergent light was shed upon the western limits of the land.
Many of them exhibit the same colors and ochreous stain as do the flints in the gravel in which they lay.
Indiscriminately mixed with these bones were found many flint knives, but chiefly from the lowest part of the ochreous cave-earth, varying in depth from ten inches to thirteen feet.
Next below, ochreous cave-earth, from one foot to fifteen feet in thickness.
Through a cleft between two mountains we caught a glimpse of distant houses clustered up the side of a hill towards an old Saracen ruin which gleamed ochreous against the evening sky.
We were now in the province of Murcia, and the scenery put on the characteristic appearance of that province, tall bare hills of an ochreous mauve, sloping down into a flat, irrigated, fertile valley.
A white road deep in dust gleamed beneath the afternoon sun and led away across the ochreous plain, but, of town, not a sign.
Thus, compulsory detention is a natural and defective adjunct of a "deterrent" Poor Law, because it scares people off; but it is a fatal obstacle to the operations of a Poor Law which is intended to be curative and restorative.
I observed that the prevailing tints of the whole great prospect were of russet andochreous colours.
The hind-wings are pinkish-brown, tinged withochreous on the termen.
Its colour is pale yellowish-brown above, and dull ochreous beneath.
The cilia are paleochreous barred with dark brown.
The hind-wings are dull grey; the cilia are pale reddish-ochreous tipped with white.
The female varies from pale ochreous to dark slate-colour; the markings resemble those of the male, but the termen of the wings is more indented.
The hind-wings are ochreousmottled with pale brown near the dorsum; there is a series of black dots on the termen of both fore- and hind-wings.
All the wings vary from pale ochreous to rather dull yellowish brown, sometimes very slightly tinged with green.
He could see nothing at first but a mixture of green and ochreous dust, through which tiny electric fires went quivering and shaking.
The smuggler sits on the oleaginous sea, tinged to ochreous yellow, waiting for evening and the confederate junk.
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