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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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een Ch. Psaphonand Marmax. The markings of the under side of the wings, in all these species, is very similaralthough the colouring differs; the difference in the length of the tails of the hind wings in theopposite sexes of this species occurs also in Ch. Bernardus, whilst the taU at the anal angle of thesewings is almost obliterated. Col. Hearsey informs me that he usually took the Indian Ch. Fabius upon wounded apple trees,the butterflies frequenting the wounds to suck up the flvuds which were discharged therefrom. The powers of flight in this genus must be very great; in fact the form and proportion of the wingsand the great strength of the wing veins, seem especially to fit the species of this genus for themost powerful flight.■ The plant represented in this plate is Bolbophyllum umbeUatum, from the mountains of India. * This figure of Donovan is a good copy of Jones drawing from which Fabricius described the species. Pap. Polyxena, Cramer, pi.54, fig. A B, is very similar. zz.
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PLATE XXII. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Noctorka. Family—Bosibtcidjj, Leach.) FIGURE 1. ACTIAS MiENAS. Doubledav.(Lower Figure.) Actias alis omnibus pallide riridi-fiavis, marginibus externis rufesccntibus, antieis costa fcrruginea, cincreo lavata,lunula magna discoidali fascia transversa baseos, alteraque postiea indistincta vakle undata rufescentibus ; posticislonge caudatis occllo parvo discoidali, nigro anticc cincta, fascia pone medium flexuosa obsoleta rufescente. Expansion of the fore wings neai-ly 7 inches ; length of the hind wings and tails 5^ inches. luliabits Silhet. In the Collections of the British Museum, and W. W. Saunders, Esq. St.nonv.me.—Actias Moenas, E. Doubleday, in Annals Nat. Hist., February, 1847, p. ■)!>. Description.—Anterior wiugs very broad and rounded, pale greenish-yellow, the costa, except atthe apex, ferruginons, sprinkled with cinereous atoms ; outer margin rufescent; nejir the base a trans-verse narrow band of the same colour, darkest

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