Ten insects, including the earwig, cockroach, grasshopper, praying mantis, cricket and mole cricket. Coloured engraving by J. W. Lowry after C. Bone.

  • Bone, Charles, active 1815-1826.
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London, Edinburgh & Glasgow : William Mackenzie

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1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; sheet 26.9 x 18.2 cm

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Entomology. Order: Orthoptera. 1 Forficula auricularia. earwig 2 Blatta laponica Lapland cockroach 3 Tridactylus paradoxus 4 Mantis religiosa praying mantis 5 Acanthodis imperialis the emperor black and green cricket 6 Acrydium coerulescens blue-winged grasshopper 7 Gryllotalpa vulgaris mole-cricket 8 Acrydium bipunctatum 9 Truxalis nasuta 10 Idolothrips spectrum (highly magnified) Order: Thysanoptera Bears number: Plate 5

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Wellcome Collection 42197i

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