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Diptera

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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.
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    Illustrations of British blood-sucking flies / with notes by Ernest Edward Austen.

    British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. | Date: 1906
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    Six insects and two spiders, including a cicada adult and nymph, a butterfly and two gnats. Gouache painting.

    | Reference: 23649i
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    A figwort plant (Scrophularia vernalis) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

    | Date: 1 January 1831 | Reference: 24185i
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    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.

    Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814. | Date: 1 August 1804 | Reference: 25498i
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    A variety of insects including beetles, moths, wasps and flies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.

    Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862. | Reference: 42064i
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