Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19232

    Geometer moths

    Date
    1886
    Creator
    Maud Horman Fisher (1861 - 1904, British) , Lithographer
    Creator - Organisation
    Mintern Bros, Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    50426
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 320mm
    width (print): 245mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    Description
    Ten entomological studies of different species of Geometridae (geometer) moth.

    1. Study of Blepharoctenucha virescens Butler here styled Hemerophila virescens Butler of the Geometridae family, found in Darjeeling India.
    2. Study of Dindicodes crocina Butler here styled Hypochroma crocina Butler of the Geometridae family, found in Darjeeling India.
    3. Study of Lophophelma vigens Butler here styled Hypochroma vigens Butler of the Geometridae family, found in Darjeeling India.
    4. Study of Actenochroma muscicoloraria Wlaker here styled Hypochroma muscicoloraria Walker of the Geometridae family, found in Darjeeling India.
    5. Study of Boarmia plumalis Butler of the Geometridae family, found in Darjeeling India.
    6. Study of Ophthalmitis infusaria Walker here styled Ophthalmodes infusaria Walker of the Geometridae family, found in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
    7. Study of Elphos pardicelata Walker of the Geometridae family, found in India.
    8. Study of Ctenognophos obtectaria here styled Gnophos obtectaria Walker of the Geometridae family, found in Darjeeling India and Nepal.
    9. Study of Gnophos aereus Butler of the Geometridae family, found in Darjeeling India.
    10.Study of Gnophos muscosaria Walker of the Geometridae family, found in Darjeeling India.

    Inscribed ‘LEP HET Pl. CXVI. M. Horman-Fisher del et. lith del et lith. Mintern Bros. imp.1. Hemerophila virescens 2. Hypochroma crocina 3. Hypochroma vigens 4. Hypochroma muscicoloraria 5. Boarmia plumalis 6. Ophthalmodes infusaria 7. Elphos pardicelata 8. Gnophos obtectaria 9. Gnophos aereus 10. Gnophos muscosaria.’

    Plate 116 to Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum, part VI, by Arthur Gardiner Butler (1886, London).

    Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844-1925) British entomologist was assistant-keep in zoology and assistant-librarian to the British Museum.


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          > India
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       > Asia
          > Bangladesh
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       > Asia
          > Nepal
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