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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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icis dilatatis,posticis 4 spinosis. Obs.—Hoc insectum ad familiam Fulgoridarum revocandum, Eurybrachi proximum. Ancyra pitchy black, the face, crown of the head and pronotum transversely streaked with grey, the metanotumblood-red with two black spots, the abdomen black with the tip densely powdered with white ; body beneathand legs black, the belly luteous, the tegmina coriaceous, convex, purplish-pitchy, with the costa dotted with white ;a fascia across the middle and the apex broadly powdered with white, the latter with a black tubercle from whencesprings an elongated slender appendage widest at the tip ; hind wings convex, the costa at the apex deeplysinuated, the tip itself falcate, the anterior tibite dilated, the posterior pair with 4 spines. Length of the insect J inch. Expansion of the tegmina (exclusive of the terminal appendages) 1 inch. Inhabits Moulmein. In the British Museum. The plant represented in the plate is the Amphicome arguta Royle, from the Himalayan Mountains.
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PLATE XXXVII. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Diuuna.) FIGURE 1. HESTIA HYPERMNESTUA. Westw. Hestia alis subelongatis, fumosis (prtcsertim inter medium et apicem) nigro-maculatis et venosis ; costa nigramacula parva subcostal! anticarum cum macula ai-ete discoidalis comiexa ; serieque macularum oblongarum ponemedium cum maigine apicali pai-allela, omnibus alis ad apicem maculia ovalibus inter venas, aliistjue majoiibusclavatis alternatis. Hestia, with the wings more elongate than in H. Idea (Agelia), and less so than in H. Lyncea ; pale blackish-brown, with spots and vems of black. The costa black, with a small subcostal spot connected with the patch of thediscoidal cell of the fore wings ; and with a row of oblong spots of black between tlie middle and apical margin,being parallel with the latter. All the wings with the apical margins marked with oval black spots between theveins, alternating with larger clavate spots which rest upon the veins, inner false vein of the discoidal ccU o

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