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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
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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igro nitido subtus rufo-fulvo. Pseudophyllus opake-brown, with blacli feet, the antennte broadly annulated with white ; the middle of the disliof the pronotum with foui small black raised tubercles, the hind part forming two rounded lobes ; the wing-coversare of an obscure brown, tinged towards tlie base nith green, with the secondary veins stained with fulvous, andwith a small black spot near the base ; the hind wings pale brown, with the costal portion darker; the abdomenblack and sliiniug, with the underside fulvous red. (Female). Expansion of the fore wings, 4i inches. Inhabits Prince of Wales Island (Dr. Cantor). In the Collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. Observations.—The legs are destitute of spines; the fore tibiae are thickened ueai- the base, witha deep slit on each side, forming two raised oval glossy lobes, thus differing from the oval opercula inthe fore legs of many of this family. The ovipositor is about half the length of the abdomen, graduallyacuminated to the tip. 7
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PLATE XVII. (ORDER—COLEOPTERA. Section—Lamellicornia.) JUMNOS RUCKERI. Saunders, (Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 176). Figure 1, Male ; Figure 2, Female. Jumnos Iffite viridis, politus, vcrticc tarsisque chalybocis, clytris guttis quatuor flavis, duobus posticis niajoribus etin fasciam interruptam dilatatis. .Jumnos of a brilliant polished green colour, with the upper surface of the head and the tarsi steel blue ; theelytra \Yitli four yellow spots, the two posterior largest, and forming a broad inten-upted fascia. Length of the insect, 11— 1J inches. Inhabits the Himalayas. In the Collection of the British Museum and T. Norris, Esq. (male), and CaptainParry (female). Observations.—The female of this magnificent Cetoniideous insect having been recently received (for the first time) fi-om the Himalayas, by T. Vernon Wollaston, Esq., of Jesus College, Cambridge, I have deemed it worthy of a place in this work, and have added a figm-e of the male from a specimen presented to the British

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