EditorialSouth India small tussore moth, Antheraea paphia 1 and caterpillar a, and gaudy sphinx, Eumorpha labruscae 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch ...
EditorialAntheraea, Print, Antheraea is a moth genus belonging to the family Saturniidae. The genus was erected by Jacob H?bner in 1819. Several species of this genus have caterpillars which produce wild silk of commercial importance. Commonly called "tussar silk.
EditorialUnknown birds of Sri Lanka: Pink-coloured warbler, Motacilla caryophyllacea, and green wagtail, Motacilla viridis. Sri Lanka tussah silk moth, Antheraea cingalesa (Ceylon silk moth, Bombia paphia). After an illustration by Pieter de Bevere supplied by ...
EditorialSouth India small tussore moth, Antheraea paphia 1 and caterpillar a, and gaudy sphinx, Eumorpha labruscae 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch ...
EditorialSouth India small tussore, Antheraea paphia (Phalaena paphia) caterpillar on a jujube plant, Ziziphus jujuba. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Nat...
EditorialSouth India small tussore, Antheraea paphia (Phalaena paphia). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804.
EditorialPolyphemus moth, Antheraea polyphemus. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1798. Most of the 1,064 illustrations of...