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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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hich terminates above the ocellusnearest the tail. A rather broad pale striga and a very narrow submarginal pale line run close tothe apical margin of all the wings, preceded in the hind wings by the two ocelli, the innermost beingthe largest, ha\ang a white dot in the centre and a slender black circular outline. The tail is broad,with two black dots edged above with white. The body is fulvous-brown. The under side of the abdomenis furnished with long setae, and the anal vein of the hind wings has a fascicle of short hairs oppositethe extremity of the abdomen : the body and antennse are fulvous-brown. FIGURE 5.This outhne figure represents the fore wing of Zeuxidia Luxerii, mentioned above, in order to showthe very curious ai-rangement of the veins, whereby it will be seen that the folding of the wing marked *(which in Amathusia follows the long branch marked f) is here converted into a fourth branch of thegreat median vein by means of a distinct twig J which connects it therewith. za
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PLATE XX. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Nocturna. Family—Bombyctdj!, Leach.) FIGURE 1.SATURNIA SIMLA. Westw. Satumia alis anticis carneo-fulvis, costa fasciaque obliqua ante medium, postice attenuata sub albidis, striga puniceaprope basin alteraque obliqua medians magis fusca, oeello obscuriori mediana margiueque postico late griseo-fulvo ;posticis basi pallida puniceis, fascia tenui ante alterisque duabus undatis pone medium obscurioribus, oeello magnonigro fulvo et albo vario, interjecto, margine postico giiseo-fulvescenti. Saturnia with the fore \vings of a very pale fulvous bro\vn, thickly irrorated with reddish scales ; the costa andan oblique fascia, before the middle of the wings, very much attenuated behind, of a very pale pinlcish-white ;the basal portion of the wing reddish, tenninated by a dark pink line ; the pale fascia is succeeded by a veryobUque streak of reddish-brown, which rests on the anterior edge of the centre ocellus, which is rather small and ofa dusky colo

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