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Title: The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insects Insects
Publisher: London : William Smith, 113 Fleet Street
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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on of the abdomen has proved it to be of the opposite sex. I have seenother males not larger than the female represented in the present plate. In both sexes the fore tibiseare veiy broad and serrated (fig. 6 e, fore tibise of male), but the most striking distinction consists in thementum, which in the male (fig. 6 d) is densely hairy; whilst in the female (fig. 6 a) it is nearly naked;the mesosternum is obtuse (fig. 6 b, 6 c). The female appears to be much rarer than the male. Thespecimen of the former sex now represented (in order to complete the illustration of the species) iscontained in the Kirbian CoUectiou in the possession of the Entomological Society of London. This species belongs to the second section of the sub-genus Odontolabis, in which the head of themales has the sides behind the eyes not spiued, containing also L. Glabratus, De Haan; L. Baladeva,Hope, &c. * I possess a specimen of L. glabratus De H. in which the tibial spines of the fore legs are also obsolete. ZJ.
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PLATE XXVII. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Sectiox—Diurna. Family—NYiiniALiBjs. Swainson.) FIGURE 1.NYMPHALIS EUPIIRONE. Westw. Nymphalis alis fusco-nigris maculis strigisquc numerosis albis, siibtus fulvo-fuscis, auticis obsciu-ioribus, maculisstiigisque ut iu pagina superiori ; abJomine albo vitta fusca dorsali. Nymphalis with tlie wings on the upper side of a browuish-black, marked with numerous white spots and stripes ;beueath of a fulvous-brown, the fore oues darker brown, except at the tips, all maiked as above, with white spots ;abdomen white, with a dorsal stripe of blackish-brown. Expiuision of the fore wuigs nearly 51 inches. Inhabits Assam. In the Collections of British Museum. Westwood, &c. Desckiption.—This species is nearest allied to a tropical African species, figiucd by Donovan in hisInsects of India, pi. 34, fig. 3 and others, under the name of Papilio Eiuinome, and which forms adistinct sub-genus next to Diadema. In the species before us there is scarcely any dist

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