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 (14597198289)

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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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in the same sexwith four strong horns bent forwards, namely two at the anterior angles, and two on the disc beyond the middle ;the elytra are fulvous-chestnut coloured, with a slender sutural black streak, and the fore tibiae of the males arearmed on the outside beyond the middle with three strong teeth. Length of the male, about 2 inches. Inhabits Nepaul (Gen Hardwicke). In the Collections of the British Museum, Entomological Society, theRev. F. W. Hope, &c. Figure 4 a represents one of the mandibles, 4 b one of the maxiUse, and 4 c the lower lip of thisspecies; from which, upon a comparison of them T^dth the dissections of Dynastidse, engraved from mydrawings iu the first part of the Rev. F. W. Hopes Coleopterists Manual, it will be seen that itapproaches nearest to Strategus Aloeus; it is still, however, nearer to Dicastes Endj^mion iu this Iespect.A figure of the species has lately been published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,n. s. No. 54, by Captain Boys. H

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PLATE XIV. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Sectiox—Dicrna. Family—Papilionid^. Leach.)ORNITIIOPTERUS POSEIDON. E. Doibleday. (Female) Ornithoptcrus alls fusco-nigris ; anticis fascia lata abbreviata curvata subraediana (e maculis 4 constanti) ;maculisque !) submarginalibus (4 anticis elongatis), albidis ; posticis pone medium macula magna irregidari subal-bida, vcnis di^^9a et maculas 4 fuscas minores includcntc. ( 9 ) Ornithopterus with black-brown wings ; the anterior having a rather broad oblique very pale buff bar acrosstlic discoidal cell, near its extremity, beneath which ai-e three other irregular spots of the same colour ; followed bynine submarginal spots of the same colour, the four anterior of which are elongated ; the liind wings are mar!<edbeyond the middle with a large dirty whitish-buff patch, divided by the veins, extending to the anal angle, and bear-ing four smaller darli-brown spots. The wings on the underside are coloured as above, the colour of the palemarking of the

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