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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
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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te towards the tip; the autennse long, black, and slender; the eyes globose, but slightly incisedby the septum ; the mentum subtriangular ; the px-othorax with the sides straight, but beyond the middle obliquelyangulated ; all the tibiae have the outer edge destitute of spines, the apex acute ; their inner edge, as well as the underside of the tarsi, clothed with short fulvous hairs ; (male). Length, including the mandibles, nearly li inch. Inhabits the Himalayas. In the Collection of A. Melly, Esq., and my own. Observations.—I am indebted to H. G. Harrington, Esq., for my specimen of this pretty species,which diflers fi-om every known insect in the family by the series of deeply impressed Unes behindthe eyes. It approaches L. metallifer in several of its other characters, such as the long legs andantennffi, the large head and mandibles, and metaUic colouring. • By a mistake, the hind tibiae of the male m some impressions of the plates are represented as aimed with a minute spine.
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IU). PLATE IX. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Diurna. Family—rAraiONiD^, Leach.)A very slight acquaintance with any extensive tribe of animals discovers to the mind of the observerthat, notwithstanding the isolation of species in nature, each indi\ndual in fact Morking for its ownindi\idual ends, (except in the case of social species, where the members of one species work together inthe sen-ice of the community,) there exists a certain degree of relationship amongst various speciesfounded on their greater or less structural resemblance. TIuis it is, that, without in the slightestmanner interfering with each others habits, and not having the slightest connexion witli each other inrespect to the ordinary objects of their existence, we admit a relationship between two species ofbutterflies, and affirm that thej^ are more ueaily related to eacli other than a butterfly and a moth; andthus it is that we form a number of species, possessing certain characters in common, into orders,famihc

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