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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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extremity. 66 ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. FIGURE 2.BACTERIA VIRGEA. Westw. Bacteria brunneo-fuaca, tibiia anticis pallide fasciatis, corpore gracillimo iBeviasimo, femoribus spinosis, tibiis antieisvalde elongatis baud spinulosis, 4 posticis spinulis miuutis armatis, intermediis spinula majori marginis superi propebasin, abdominis segmento 7nio incrassato, ultimo fisso. Bacteria reddish-brown, the tibiae fasciated mth paler coloui, the body very slender and smooth, the femoraspined, the fore tibiae very elongate without spinulse, the four posterior tibiae armed with minute spines ; the inter-mediate with a slightly larger spine on the upper margin near the base ; the 7th segment of the abdomen incrassated,the last one sht. (Male.) Length of insect 6 inches. Inhabits Sylhet. In Coll. Westwood. Observation.—The proportions and general appearance of this insect indicate that it is mostprobably the male of the preceding. It is on this account that I have represented them both onone plate. d5.
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PLATE XXXIII. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Heteroceka. Family—Agaiiistidj;.) FIGURE 1.EUSEMIA MACULATRIX. Westw. (Naturalists Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 88.) Eusemia alls anticis nigi-is basi ca;ruleo maculatis, puneto stramineo appro.viniato maculis 4 discoidalibus,2 majoribus, 2 miiioribus, straraiiieis ct pone h.is maculis 7 albis 6ta minuta ; posticis fulvo-rufis, basi costa macuJaangulata costali fimbria irrcgulari (in qua 1 vel 2 maculse alboc) maculaque magua disuoidali cum margine analiconnexa, liiieisque duabus ad fimbriam extcnsis, nigris : capite albo et parte antica thoracis stramineo-maculato ;abdoniine fulvo nigroque cingulato. Eusemia with tlie foui- wings black, the base spotted with pale blue scales, and with an adjacent straw-colomedsmall patch, followed by 4 discoidal spots of the latter colour, two laiger, and two smaller, the latter followed by acurved row of 7 wiiite spots, the 6th being very small; hind wings rich orange red ; the base and costa, the latteremitt

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