Thursday, April 16, 2015

The cabinet of oriental entomology, 19th C

Ceylon tree nymph (Idea iasonia).

All illustrations of this post from "The cabinet of oriental entomology" as found on archive.org which is one of my last-recent favorite sources... (direct link to the book provided)

John Obadiah Westwood (1805 – 1893) was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents. Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests. He became a curator and later professor at Oxford University, having been nominated by this friend and patron the Reverend Frederick William Hope, whose donation was the basis of the Hope Collection at Oxford. He was also a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Westwood was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and president of the Entomological Society of London (1852–1853).

Among the prominent writers and naturalists he associated with was James Rennie, whom he assisted in the editing of Gilbert White's The Natural Historyand Antiquities of Selborne in 1833.


 Hestia hypermnestra (Idea hypermnestra).

From The cabinet of oriental entomology, by John Obadiah Westwood, London, 1848.

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Hestia hypermnestra (Idea hypermnestra).

Bacteria sarmentosa (Phryganistria virgea).

From The cabinet of oriental entomology, by John Obadiah Westwood, London, 1848.

(Source: archive.org)
Bacteria sarmentosa (Phryganistria virgea).