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A variety of insect life including beetles, wasps and dragonflies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.

A variety of insects including beetles, moths, wasps and flies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.

Six insects and two spiders, including a cicada adult and nymph, a butterfly and two gnats. Gouache painting.

A bael tree (Aegle marmelos) with sectioned fruit, a dancefly (Empis livida) and three worms (Enchelis species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1804, after J. Ihle.

A snapdragon plant (Antirrhinum orontium) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

Studies on the mouth parts and sucking apparatus in the blood-sucking Diptera. No. 1, Philaematomyia insignis, Austen / by F.W. Cragg.

Notes on entomological problems of medical importance in the Near and Middle East / by C.C. Deonier.

Essai sur les diptères vulnerants du Venezuela : Matériaux pour servir à l'étude des diptères piqueurs et suceurs de sang de l'Amérique intertropicale / par J.M.R. Surcouf, R. Gonzalez-Rincones.

The mosquitoes of Minnesota : (Diptera: Culicidae, Culicinae) / A. Ralph Barr.

Fly proboscis.

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Studies on the mouth parts and sucking apparatus in the blood-sucking Diptera. No. 1, Philaematomyia insignis, Austen / by F.W. Cragg.

Notes on entomological problems of medical importance in the Near and Middle East / by C.C. Deonier.

Essai sur les diptères vulnerants du Venezuela : Matériaux pour servir à l'étude des diptères piqueurs et suceurs de sang de l'Amérique intertropicale / par J.M.R. Surcouf, R. Gonzalez-Rincones.

The mosquitoes of Minnesota : (Diptera: Culicidae, Culicinae) / A. Ralph Barr.

Fly proboscis.