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Identifier: cabinetoforienta00west (find matches)
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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inch. Inhabits Assam. Communicated by Major F. Jenkins. FIGURE 9.SAPERDA (s—G. Nov.) BICOLOR. Westw. Saperda ? nigra, pronoto elytrisque coccineis, illo nigro-bimaculato, capite subrostrato, anteimis brevibus crassisarticulis 5 et reliquis serratis, pronoto conico truncato, lateribus inennibus ; elytris convexis apice rotundatis,pedibus bre%ibus simplicibus. Saperda i black, the pronotum and elytra carmine-colomed, the former with two black spots; the head elongatedin front into a short thick rostrum ; antenuse short, thick, the 5th and following joints seri-ated ; pronotum conical,tmncated, convex, the sides unarmed ; elyti-a convex, rounded at the tips ; the disc mth elevated longitudinal lines;legs short and simple. Length of the insect 9 lines. Inhabits Assam. Communicated by Major F. Jenkins. do
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PLATE XXX. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Crepuscularia. Latreille.) FIGURE 1.SPHINX (CHCEROCAMPA) DOLICIIUS. Bdv. MSS. Sphinx alis aiiticis carneo-fuseis, strigis minicrosis obliquig obscurioribus duabus fiilvo-fuscis ; puncto medio fuscovenisquc fusco punctatis ; alis posticis basi plumbuis apicc fuscis, cilia alba fusco puuctatn ; corpore fusco capita etthorace latcribus vittiique mediS (ad apicem abdominis extensa) pallidis. Sphinx with tlie fore wings fleshy-brown, with numerous obUque dusky strigte, two of which are darlt fulvousbrown, a brown spot in the middle of the wiug, and the veuis dotted with brown ; hind wings leaden blue at tJiebase, the apical portion brown, fringe white spotted with brown ; body brown ; tlie head and thorax witli the sidesand n central streak extending to the tip of the abdomen, of a paler colour. Expansion of the fore wings nearly 5 J inches. lnhal)its SylUet. In the Collection of the British Museum, W. W. Samiders, Es((., &e. FIGURE 2.SPHINX (

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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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