Fijian butterflies and mimics
Date
1891
Creator
Frederic C Moore (British) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 151mm
width (print): 106mm
height (mount): 213mm
width (mount): 117mm
width (print): 106mm
height (mount): 213mm
width (mount): 117mm
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Description
Entomological studies of butterflies from Fiji, Melanesia (figures 24-33) including an unnamed form of Hypolimnas and varieties of Euploea butterfly. These are designated Euploea whitmei and Euploea margoensis by the author, who states in the accompanying text ‘we know very little about the Fijian Lepidoptera…’ Showing the upper surfaces of eight insects.
Plate 13 from the manuscript version of the paper “On the mimetic forms of certain butterflies of the genus Hypolimnas” by Charles Swinhoe, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.53 (1893), pp.321-325.
Signed in ink lower left: ‘F.C.Moore del/91’.
Colonel Charles Swinhoe (1838-1923), British lepidopterist, was a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He collaborated with the entomologist and artist Frederic Moore (1830-1907) on the volumes comprising Lepidoptera Indica (London, Lovell Reeve & Co., 1890-1913). Moore’s son, Frederic C. Moore, contributed plates to those volumes.
Plate 13 from the manuscript version of the paper “On the mimetic forms of certain butterflies of the genus Hypolimnas” by Charles Swinhoe, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.53 (1893), pp.321-325.
Signed in ink lower left: ‘F.C.Moore del/91’.
Colonel Charles Swinhoe (1838-1923), British lepidopterist, was a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He collaborated with the entomologist and artist Frederic Moore (1830-1907) on the volumes comprising Lepidoptera Indica (London, Lovell Reeve & Co., 1890-1913). Moore’s son, Frederic C. Moore, contributed plates to those volumes.
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