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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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ate, antice emargmato, antennis nigiis ; prothoracis anguUspostieis emarginatis ; corpore infra cupreo brunneo, clypeo transverse porrecto, oculis omnino bipartitis ; mentosemicirculari valde piloso ; tibiis anticis latis extus denticulis ciiciter 5, 4-posticis in utroque sexu simplicibus. Lucanus brassy-green, glossed with copper ; the head and pronotum very dehcately gianulose, the mandiblesof the male as long as the head, falcate, and anned beyond the middle with about 9 small tnmcate teeth, the headquadrate, and marginate in front, the antennae black, the hind angles of the prothorax emargiuate; body beneathcopper-brown, the clypeus transverse and poiTected ; the eyes entirely bipartite, the mentiun semicii-cular, andvery pilose, the fore tibise broad, with about 5 small teeth, the four posterior ones simple in both sexes. Length of the insect, including the mandibles, 10—15 lines. Inhabits the Tennasserun Coast, and Pi-mce of Wales Island. In Coll. British Museum, and Hope. //.
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PLATE XI. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Diurna. Family—Papilionid^, Leach.)ORNITHOPTERUS POSEIDON. E. Doubleday. (Ann. Nat. Hist. xix. 173. March 1847.) Ornithopterus alis holoscricco-viiidibus limbo nigro, anticis fascia longitujinali latissiraa nigra veuis viridibusdivisa ; posticis subtus aureo-viridibus nigio-niaculatis angulo ani aureo. Ornithoptci-us witli the wings satiny-gi-een, with a narrow black border, the fore ones with a very broad longitudinalfascia divided by green veins ; hind wings beneath golden green with black spots, and the anal angle shaded to goldencolour. Expansion of the fore wings, 6 J inches. Inhabits Daraley Island. In the British Museum. Description.—Above, anterior \nngs with the entire limb deep velvety black, the disc occupied bya broad fascia of the same colour, united to the black margin below the apex, divided by the medianvein, and branches which are golden green; its inner side more fuscous and opaque. The space betweenthis and the costal an

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  • bookyear:1848
  • bookdecade:1840
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • bookauthor:Metcalf_Collection__North_Carolina_State_University___NCRS
  • bookauthor:Tippmann_Collection__North_Carolina_State_University___NCRS
  • booksubject:Insects
  • bookpublisher:London___William_Smith__113_Fleet_Street
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