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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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of the wings r2J lines. Inhabits China. In the British Museum. Observations.—Notwithstanding the very rudimental structure of the mouth in this insect, aswell as in the genera Colax, Wiedemann, and Trichopsidea, Westw., I am inclined to refer them tothe position proposed by M. Macquart (Dipt. Exot. ii. p. 34), namely, in connexion with theNemestrinse, in which the mouth is developed to its highest extent. Theii- relation to the (Estridaeappears to me more questionable. The Orchidaceous plant represented is the Bromheadia palustris, from Singapore and Sumatra. • Colonel Sykes observes of D. Sykesii, This msect affects chasms or ravines in the lofty woods which encircle the hill fort ofHurreechunderghur m the western ghauts of the Deccan, in various places. Where the sunbeams occasionally pierce the woods andfall upon isolated or salient rocks in the above locaUties, they are seen in myriads either poising themselves in the r.ays, or reposingin the spots on wliich the rays fall. 19
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PLATE XIX. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Diurna. Family—Nympiialidjs. Swaixson.) AMATHUSIA AMYTHAON. E. Doubleday, (Ann. Nat. Hist. xix. 175, March 184 7.) Figure 1, 2, Male ; Figure 3, Female. Aniathusia alls omnibus supra fuscis ; auticis fascia obliqua lata (in marc late coerulea, in fa-mina fulva), subtus(lallidc cbocolaJinis, stilgis 7 transversis injequalibua saturatioribus, posticis ocellis duobus albo pupillatis punc-tisque duobus nigris in cauda abbrcviata. Amathusia with all the wings above brown, the fore ones with an oblique broad fascia, light blue in the male,fulvous in the female ; beneath all the wings pale chocolate, with 7 transverse unequal darker streaks ; the hmdones with two oval ocelli having white pupils, and the short tails with two black dots. Expansion of the fore wings, about 5 inches. Inliabits Sylhet. Description.—Male above, all the wings blackish browiij the basal portions being the darkest; theanterior are traversed by a broad oblique band of a b

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