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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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llied to the Dynastidae and forming a sort of connecting link with the Goliathidae.Drs. Klug and Erichson, (Proceedings of Berlin Academy, 1839; Wiegm. Archiv. Bericht, 1839, p. 28(244); Taylors Annals of Nat. Hist. No. 21, September 1839,) propose to place it at some distancefrom the Dynastidae and even after the genus Cyclocephala, approaching IMelolontha; whilstDr. Bimneister (Zeitschr. d. Ent. 2, p. 353, and Handb. d. Ent. 3, p. 698,) refers it to the Trichiidae. * By information recently received from Captains Boys and Hutton, and Dr. Benson, I am induced to believe that other specimens ofthis insect, or of a nearly allied species have lately been fomid in India. + The stag-beetles (Lucanidse) seem to occur in a reversed proportion in these two parts of the globe : the oriental species farexceeding, both in numbers and size, those of the New World. Thus Nature appears to restore the equilibrium by giving to eachdistrict a certain number of species possessing analogous properties.
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PLATE II. PAPILIO ICARIUS. Westw.(ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section Diukna. Rhopalocf.ra. Bdv.) Papilio alis anticia supra fusco-nigris faseiis longitudinalibus nigi-is ; posticis valde clongatis et dilatato-caiulatis,nigris, macula niediaiia alba, maculisquc ti-ibus magiiis marginalibus rufis, inter caudam et margiuem analem,maculas nigras iiicludentibus ; alis subtus basi ctiam rufis ; capite ct collar! albido maculatis. Papilio with the fore wiugs above brownish black, witli black longitudinal fasciae ; the hind wings much elongatedand dilated at the caudal part, above black, with a large white patch in the middle, and with three large red spotson the maigin, between the tail and the abdominal edge, each bearing a black patch ; all the wings on tlie undersidehave also their base broadly red, head and collar with pale buff dots. Expansion of the fore wings, 6 inches. Inhabits Assam. In the Ashraolean Museum, Oxford. Description.—In addition to the chaiacters given in the above specific

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