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Foreign Butterflies
James Duncan and William Jardine
The tropics wear butterflies like living jewels. Duncan presents the great foreign species, from the magnificent Ornithoptera to the swallowtail Papilios, each described and illustrated, with a memoir of Lamarck as well. A colorful gallery for the collector and the curious. Open the plates and marvel at the butterflies of distant lands.
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- 1THE NATURALIST’S LIBRARY. EDITED BY SIR WILLIAM JARDINE, BART. F.R.S.E., F.L.S., ETC., ETC. VOL. XXXI. ENTOMOLOGY. FOREIGN BUTTERFLIES. BY JAMES DUNCAN, M.W.S., ETC. EDINBURGH: W. H. LIZARS, 3, ST. JAMES’ SQUARE. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1858.
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3MEMOIR OF LAMARCK.
- 4MEMOIR OF LAMARCK.
- 5INTRODUCTION.
- 6Genus ORNITHOPTERA.
- 7ORNITHOPTERA PRIAMUS. PLATE 1. Fig. 1.
- 8ORNITHOPTERA REMUS. PLATE 1. Fig. 2.
- 9Genus PAPILIO.
- 10PAPILIO MEMNON. PLATE II. Fig. 1.
- 11PAPILIO ÆNEAS. PLATE II. Fig. 2.
- 12PAPILIO ASCANIUS. PLATE III. Fig. 1.
- 13PAPILIO PARIS. PLATE III. Fig. 2.
- 14PAP. PROTESILAUS. PLATE IV. Fig. 1.
- 15PAPILIO SINON. PLATE IV. Fig. 2.
- 16LEPTOCIRCUS CURIUS. PLATE V. Fig. 1.
- 17THAIS MEDESICASTE. PLATE V. Fig. 2.
- 18Genus PIERIS.
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