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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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TRICTENOTOMA jENEA. Parry. MSS. ? Trictenotoma nigra subnitida ; elytris seneis vel cupreis pubeseentia tenuiori albida induta, mandibulis extussubsinuatis, pronoto utrunque subserrato et pone medium spina acuta armato, disco utrinque tuberculo tiansversosubelevato, scutello brevi. Tricteuotoma black, somewhat glossy, the elytra brassy or coppery, the upper surface more slightly clothed witha buff pubescence, the mandibles outwardly subsenated, the pronotum sUghtly serrated at the sides iu front and witha sharp spine on each side beyond the middle, the disc with a slightly elevated transvere tubercle on each side, andthe scutellum short. Length of the insect 3 inches. Inhabits the Himalayas. In the Collections of Captain PaiTy, Dr. Benson, and T. V. WoUaston, Esq. Figure4. The female of the natural size; 4a, the under-side of the head; 4 b, the last ventral segment,showing the extremity of the last dorsal one; 4 e, the last dorsal segment; 4 d, sheath of ovipositor;4e, the ovipositor.
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PLATE XXIV. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Noctursa. Fauilt—Bombtcid.e. Leach.) FIGURE 1.SATURNIA LARISSA. Wesiw. Saturnia alis supra fulvis disco anticai-um in medio saturariori, strigis tribus griseo-brunneis valde imdatis singu-laquc ocello griseo, antice rufo-brimneo, medio viti-eo ornata, costa anticarmn grisea, apicibusque luteo-einereis,corpore fulvo-rufescenti thorace antice griseo. Satiu-nia with the upper surface of the wings fulvous, the middle of the disc of the anterior pair darker, andtraversed by three very waved greyish-purple-brown streaks, each wing bemg marked with a greyish ocellus, whichis anteriorly brownish-red, and in the middle glassy ; the costa of the fore wings gray, and the outer margins broadlylutcous-ashy ; the body fulvous red, with the front of the thorax grey. Expansion of the fore wings .5 3 inches. Inhabits the Island of Java. In the Collection of M. Daleu. Observations.—I am indebted for drawings of the two beautiful species of Saturnia, repre

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