File: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 (14781527154).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(1,960 × 2,694 pixels, file size: 470 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English:

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
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
k brunneous, underside brunneous, with the middle of the fore wings paler, some-what straw-coloured. Expansion of the fore vimgs of the female rather more than U inches. Inhabits Ceylon. In the Collection of Dr. Templeton. Colonel Hearsey has brought home a male specimen of this genus from Central India, which I con-sider as the male of L. graciosa, which differs only from the female in having the upper side of thehead and thorax entirely pale green, and the hind wings pale buff, with the outer margin ratherdarker. Dr. Templeton has also sent another species from Ceylon, closely allied to the two preceding, whichmay be thus characterised. Limacodes lata, Westw., capite et prothorace supra fasciaque tenui sub-mediana alarum anticarumparum undata viridibus, harum basi apiceque late brunneis, macula parva alba versus basin alarum,alis posticis basi stramineis apiceque obscuriori. Exp. alar, antic. 1 unc. The plant represented in this plate is the Vanda teretifolia of Lindley, from China.
Text Appearing After Image:
PLATE XXV. (ORDER—ORTHOPTERA. Section—Saltatouia. Family—Gryllid.e, Leach. Locustari.e Lath.) FIGURE LACANTHODIS IJIPERIALIS White, (Ann. Nat. Hist. Vol. xviii., pi. 1, fig. 1.) Acanthodis nigricans, pronoto riridi-flavescente ; tegminibus costa brunnua nigro albotjue maculata, parte posticanigi-icanti maculis tiibus magnis (raargine iuterno connexis) viridibus; alls uigris venis transversis viridi-albis,pedibus anticis nigricantibus, posticis viridibus. Acanthodis with the body black, the prouotum yellowish green, the costa of tlie tegmina rich brunneous with blackand white spots, the hind part blackish with three large beautiful gieen spots which are united together on the innermargin ; the wings black with the transverse veins of greenish white, the fore legs blaclcish, the hind ones gieenish. Expansion of the wings 44 inches. Length, including the ovipositor, 2f inches. Length of the anteunse 8 inches. Inhabits Assam and Sylhet. Communicated by Col. Jenkins, E. Doubleday, an

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14781527154/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr tags
InfoField
Flickr posted date
InfoField
30 July 2014



Licensing

[edit]
This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14781527154. It was reviewed on 11 October 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

11 October 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current01:58, 11 October 2015Thumbnail for version as of 01:58, 11 October 20151,960 × 2,694 (470 KB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': cabinetoforienta00west ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fcabinetoforienta00west%2F fin...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File: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_(14781527154).jpg&oldid=592829258"