Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11682

    Blue Spotted Crow

    Date
    1891
    Creator
    Frederic C Moore (British) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 118mm
    width (painting): 147mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    Description
    Entomological study of the Blue Spotted Crow butterfly Euploea singapura (figure 15). Showing a single upper surface of the insect’s wing.

    Plate 8 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 ‘Kolari [deleted] singapura’.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.
    Associated place
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