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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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s ; posticis hyaUnis venis ciliaque nigris, area anali fulva, thorace et basi abdominis necnonincisuris abdominis fulris, pedibus fulvo nigroque vai-iis ; posticis elongatis dense barbatis barba tibiarum extusfulva intus cum tarsis nigris. Trochihum with the fore wings black, the inner margin fulvous, with two longitudinal stieaks extending beyondthe middle of the wing, and a somewhat triangulai subapical spot (divided by fom longitudinal vems) hyaline ; hindwmgs hyaline with the slender veins and the ciha black, anal area fulvous, legs varied with fulvous and black, thehind ones elongated and densely beaided, the beard of the tibiae outwardly fulvous, inwardly as well as thatof the taisi, black. Expansion of the fore wings nearly H inch. Inhabits Central India. In the Collection of Colonel Hearsey. Observation.—Closely allied to, but smaller than. Sphinx Bombvlifoi-mis of Cramer, pi. 400,fig. C. The plant represented in the plate is the Cerojjegeia elegans from the Nilgherry Hills.
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PLATE XXXI. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Diuuxa. Family—Papilionid.e.) FIGURE 1. AND 1*. PAPILIO EVAN. DouBLEDAv. (Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. 2:iS and 304.) Papilio nlis auticis clongatis falcatis acuminatis, posticis elongatis dcntatis caudatis omnibus luteo-rufis, mai-gincextenio late fusco.brunneo, maculis lunulisque luteo-rufis. Papilio with the fore wings elongate, sickle-shaped, acuminated ; hind ones elongated, dentated, tailed, all luteousred, with the outer maigin broadly brown with luteous red spots ajid lunulcs. Expansion of the fore wings, 5 to 64 inches. Inhabits Sylhet. In the Collections of the British and Ashmolean Museums, and W. W. .Saunders, Esq. Description.—Anterior wings elongate, falcate, acuminate, of bright liglit fulvous, the base andanterior portion of tlic costa more obscure, the costa from the middle to the ape.x and exterior margindeep brown, ^dth fulvous spots at the apex and anal angle ; a sigmoid spot in the cell and a larger spoton the disco-celhdar

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