Lexicographical Neighbors of Nervules
Literary usage of Nervules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1904)
"... destitute of all markings save a faint apical line and the obscure streaks in
cells between the median nervules near the median nervure. ..."
2. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1891)
"simple), not connected by a line of oblique nervules ; only two series of gradate
nervules, one between the end of the radius and the apex of the wing, ..."
3. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt (1890)
"1) the hind-wings are asymmetrical in the position of the nervules, ... after the
loss of the median nervules, as such, also lose the transverse ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"Various modifications in the number and connexion of these nervules are ...
The genus Argynnis, Godart, always offers five subcostal nervules, never, ..."
5. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1871)
"In the present genus the subcostal nervure emits two superior nervules which ...
Beyond these, two inferior nervules are thrown off from the nervure to the ..."
6. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1867)
"This linear band is angulated prominently immediately below costa and thence
obsoletely so on the nervules, with faint traces of connexion l>y dark scales. ..."
7. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1894)
"Hind wings: basal area almost wholly black, the centre is clothed •with black
hairs, and all the nervules are black, some broad and diffuse, others finer ..."
8. The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of by William Jacob Holland (1902)
"The branches of these compound veins are known as nervules. ... The nervules of
the subcostal veins branch upwardly and outwardly toward the costal margin ..."
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