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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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te-striated ; thighs brassy-pitchy at the base ; tibife and tarsi fulvous ; body beneath, blackand shining, with the inflexed margins of the elytra shining brassy green. Length of the insect, 4 lines. Inhabits the Himalayan region. In Mus. Westwood. I am indebted to H. G. Harrington, Esq., for my unique specimen of this interesting insect.Figure 9 a, represents the labrum; 9 b, the mandible; 9 c, the maxillae; 9 d, the labium, &c.;9 e, the antennae; 9 f, the fore tarsus; Q g, one of the hind tarsi. * Dr. Erichson has had the rare tact to discover and demonstrate, in an article pubhshed in Wiegmanns Archives, that the singulargenus Pteroloma (Holoenemis, SchilUug), placed by all preceding authors amongst the Carabidaj next to Nebria, belongs to tliefamily SUphidae, near to Catops and Agyrtes. The insect above described fully confirms this relation of Pteroloma. ElaphropusCarahoides of Motchoulsky, Bull, Mosc. 1839, t. 5. fig. E. seems also to possess an affinity with these insects.
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PLATE XLII. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Dicrxa. Family—Heucoxud.e.) FIGURE 1.HESTIA lASONIA. Westw. Hcstia alia sub-elongatis albis, nigro maculatis et venosis ; anticis tertia parte basali costte nigra, macula magnaobliqua nigra per aroam discoidalem extensa, serieque macularum subovalium pono medium alee cum margineapicali baud parallela (anticis propioribus ai-ea; discoidali); posticis macula ovali nigra in medio arete discoidalis ;omnibusque ad apicem maculis ovalibus inter venas aliisque majoribus clavatis alternatis. Hestia, with the wings rather elongate, white, spotted and veined with black ; the anterior with the costa for onethird of its extent from the base black, with a large black oblique spot exteuding across the discoidal cell, and arow of somewhat oval spots, variable in size, beyond the middle of the wing, not parallel with the apical margin (thespots towards the costa being nearer to the extremity of the discoidal cell); the hind wings with an oval black spotin

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