puncturations

These puncturations make them look dark: But the women, who are but little punctured, youths and young children, who are not at all, are as fair as some Europeans.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784

These puncturations make them look dark: But the women, who are but little punctured, youths and young children, who are not at all, are as fair as some Europeans.

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 James Cook 1753

This species seems to have some relation to the laticollis, Grav., but the thorax is less dilated, the lateral puncturations are much more nu - merous; the elytra are of a difTerent colour, &, c.

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771