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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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s figm-ed in Freycinets Voyage, p. 183,f. 3. Orn. UrviUianus Guer. (Entom. de la Coquille, Ins. pi. 13, figs. 1, 2) very nearly resemblesO. Priamus, but has the green colour of the wings replaced by a brilliant violet blue, with a largehispid patch between the middle and the anal angle ; the disc of the hind wings above is black, withthe veins broadly blue, dilated into an iiTegular submarginal fascia of the same colour; the under-sidemore nearly resembles O. Poseidon, the gr-een of the fore wings being however replaced by blue;whilst the hind wings are golden yellow with green reflections and with a black spot near the analangle, forming the innermost of a row of seven spots. O. Tithonus, figured by De-Haan, Tab. 1. fig. 1, is a noble species allied to O. Priamus, but ha\inga broad green bar along the middle of the fore wings, and the hind wings very narrow, vdth a broadblack anal margin. The beautiful plant represented in the plate is the Disemma aurantia, a native of New Caledonia.
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PLATE XII. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Noctuhna. Familt—Bombycid.e, Leach.) FIGURE 1.SATURNIA ZULEIKA. Westw. Saturiiia alis supra fulvo-rufia versus basin pur;)ureo parum coloratis siiigulaqueocello parvo vitreo ornata; anticisfalcatis striga undata fere obsoleta ante medium alteraque fere recta plumbeo-nlgra postica ; posticia strigis duabusplumbeo-nigris, una ante, altera pone medium, hac undata et minus distincta. Saturnia witli the wings above fulvous red, with a purple tinge near the base, each marked in the middle with asmall talc-like ocellus ; the fore wings falcate, with a small undulated striga, nearly obsolete before the middle, andanother beyond the middle, much darker, leadeu-black and nearly straight (extending from near tlie apex towards themiddle of the inner margin, the tip stained with purplish chocolate and the outer margin with grey), liiiid wings withtwo leaden black strigte, one nearly straight and dai-ker before, and the other waved beyond the middle, out

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