Climena Crow and Great Eggfly
Date
1891
Creator
Frederic C Moore (British) , Artist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 216mm
width (painting): 143mm
width (painting): 143mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Entomological studies of the butterfly the Great Eggfly, Hypolimnas bolina, mimetic female (figure 12) variety from Amboina [Ambon Island, Indonesia] and the Climena Crow Euploea climena (figure 13). Showing a single upper surface of each of the insects’ wings.
Plate 6 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.
Inscribed below in pencil ‘Hyp. Sp. Amboina. Eup. Climena amboina’. 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 6 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.
Inscribed below in pencil ‘Hyp. Sp. Amboina. Eup. Climena amboina’. 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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