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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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for Bombyxlectris (Cramer, Donov. Ins. China, pi. 43, fig. 2.) He considered it as very nearly allied to Agarista,and such is certainly the case since they agree in the structure of the antennae, palpi, spiral tongue,veins, bridle, and general colouring of the wing. The principal difference is in the structure of thefore legs, which are sufficiently unlike to warrant their separation. The fore thighs (as they appearin E. maculatrix) have not the strong brush of hairs which is so conspicuous in Agarista, and in factare glabrous. The tarsi are very long, and become gradually more slender to the tips, each beingfurnished with one very long and slender unguis, the other being short and bifid. The four- terminaljoints of the tarsi are almost denuded, except that there exists a row of very delicate short setae, andanother of slender short incurved spinulae. J. O. W. in NaturaUsts Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 87. The plant represented in the plate is the Nepalese Sphcerostema propinquum, of Blume.
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PLATE XXXIV. (ORDER—NEUROPTERA. Section—SuBNEcr.oMORrnoTicA. Westw. Sub-Section—Planipennes. FIGURE 1.ASCALAPHUS (OGCOGASTER) TESSELLATUS. Westw. Ascalaphus niger, facie fusca, antennis fulvis apicc magiio pyriformi nigro, ociUorum parte supera inferi multomajori, capite pone oculos fulvo, collare fascia tenui, mesoiioto maeulis 5, metanoto 3 transversis, flavis ; abdominenigro dilatato, dorso scrie maculai-uin, lateribusque versus basin et apicem maculls flavis ; alis subfulvesccntibusstigmate nigro, venis versus basin fuseo tiuctis maculaque parva diseoidali fusca notatis, abdomine ut videtur baudappcndieulato. Ascalaphus black witb the face brown, slightly hirsute, antenna; fulvous, the apex large, black, and pear-shaped,the upper dirision of the eyes much larger than tlie lower, head yellow behmd the eyes, the collar with a short,transverse line ; mesoiiotum with five spots, metanotum with tlirce, all yellow ; abdomen black, much dilated, theback n-ith a series of diamond-sh

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