Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10026
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Life cycle of the Kolisurra moth
Date
1834
Creator - Organisation
Day & Haghe, Lithographers
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Object type
Library reference
Tracts/x51/11
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Dimensions
height (print): 266mm
width (print): 212mm
width (print): 212mm
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Content object
Description
Entomological studies of the Kolisurra silk worm moth Antheraea kolisurra. Five figures showing eggs, pupa, silk cocoons and a female moth.
Plate from the paper ‘Some account of the Kolisurra silk-worm of the Deccan’, by William Henry Sykes (London, 1834). Originally published in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 3. Inscribed ‘KOLISURRA. Bombyx Paphia. Linn. COCOON, PUPA, MOTH and EGGS of the SILK WORM of the DECCAN. Drawn by I.L.Fidler, draftsman to Lieut. Colonel Sykes. Lithd. For the Royal Asiatic Society, by Day & Haghe, Gate St.’
Plate from the paper ‘Some account of the Kolisurra silk-worm of the Deccan’, by William Henry Sykes (London, 1834). Originally published in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 3. Inscribed ‘KOLISURRA. Bombyx Paphia. Linn. COCOON, PUPA, MOTH and EGGS of the SILK WORM of the DECCAN. Drawn by I.L.Fidler, draftsman to Lieut. Colonel Sykes. Lithd. For the Royal Asiatic Society, by Day & Haghe, Gate St.’
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