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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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me of P. Polyeuctes, but which he now considers as a variety only of P. Philoxenus.The posterior wings are very much elongated, and on the upper side the large white spot of the hindwings is not accompanied by the two small spots visible on either side of it on the under surface, noris the red mark at the anal angle visible. Mr. Doubleday having represented the upper side of thissupposed species, in his work on the butterflies now in comse of publication, the under side is heregiven, copied from a figm-e communicated by Mr. Doubleday. On attentively looking at all these insects, and allowing for the variations which occui in differentspecimens, especially when captured in different localities, it will be admitted that they all possess butone type in the markings, the spots occurring in all the same relative positions, and varying only inthe greater or less extent, or even the occasional absence of some of them. The plant represented in the Plate is the newly-imported Chirita sinensis.
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%«# PLATE XLl. (ORDEK^COLEOPTERA.)I HAVE represented in the present Plate a series of beetles wliich, altliougli not remarkable for theirsize, especially merit the attention of the Entomologist for the singularity of many of their characters,and the interest belonging to them from their position in the families of Coleopterous insects. FIGURE ).—GALBELLA VIOLACEA. Westw. Char. Gen. Genus novum Galbicct Pterotarso infainilia Eucncmidarum affinc. Corpus breve, ovale. Antenna;seiTatiC, in cavitatibus niargiualibus prostenii reccptas. Prosternum posticc procUictum mcsosterni apice dilatatoreceptum ; pedes lati contraetiles, tarsis 4-laminiferis. Genekic Ciiakacter. A new genus nearest allied to Galba and Ptcrotarsus in the family Eucnemidre. Body short,oval ; antennre serrated ; received when at rest in longitudinal cavities at the sides of the prosternum. Prosternumproduced behind and received in the dilated apex of the racsostcrnuni. Legs broad, contractile ; tarsi with 4 laniellte.

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