A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-garden, Whitehall / [by the Rev. J. Lightfoot].
- Date:
- 1786
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-garden, Whitehall / [by the Rev. J. Lightfoot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![C >57 ) Torty»one fpeelmeus of Cime^, chiefly from Jfrud^all hi tiled 3422 Six rare Papiliones, viz. two of Menelaus, two of Achilles, and two others 3425 Three curious Phaltena?, one of them with a fingular cotton-like appendage to the wings, vety rart 3424 A pair of extremely fcarce Bupreilides, of a ihining bine colour, with a large yellow fpot on each of the elytra •3423 A pair of very rare fpecies of Moloffus of J^oet^ black wdth fluted elytra 3426 Ten various fpccimens of Termesehiefly from Africa, a Formica Leo, a curious. Infeft with long clavated probably a new genus, and two others 34*7 Three beautiful Scarabasi from Africa, tw'o of them of aflne pollftied green colour, the other a blue, fpotted with white, nfery rare 3428 Two very rare Buprcftides, green and gold, fpeckled with4)]ack 5 and an un« common fpecies of Elater,^ yellow and brow'u 3419 Guttatus, iZ,. and another rare fpecies ofCarabus, black, with fix large white fpots, from Africa 3430 Two fine fpecimeijs of Phalasna Cecropia, Z,. hom New-Yorh^rare, Drury, Vtl. I. 18. 2. 3-431 Five curious and rare Papiliones, viz. three of Feronia, Z. one of Amphinomr, Fdb. and one more 3432 .A large and fine Cerambyx Cervicornis, Z. from South-America-^rare 2433 Thirty-two beautiful Papiliones, all colleAed in the neighbourhood of Nevj-York 3434 Twenty-four ditto, •very fine, from the fame place 343-5 Twelve fine and rare Papiliones, among which are Leilus, Palasno, Poly-; damas, Hy^jarete, L. &c. 3436 Two large and fine fpecies of Mantis, viz. Religbfa, L. and one from Africa— both rare 3437 A very fine Male Scarabreus Ailaon, L. from the Brazils—-very rare 3438 A very large variety of Phalsena Tau, and another curious Phalfena of equal fize, from Africa—djotb rare 3439 Two curious Spiders from Jamaica, one with hairy tufts on the legs, inclofed in glcfs cafes, two beautiful yellow and white ftriped Cerambices, logwood, fuppofed from the Bay of Honduras, at a'wood wharf in Fondon, in a like cafe, and a fcarlet Acarus ASTERI^ SHELLS, CORALS, iAc. 3440 A very large and fine Afierias aranciaca, L. from the Mediterranean—rare ^ 3 441 A large and fi7ie fpecimen of a curious variety of Echinus ma?nillatus, L. or club- fpined Echinus, with its fpines complete, from the Eajl-Indies—rare 3442 A very fine fpecimen of Strombus Scorpius, L, with the fingers very long and pcrfeli, from China—rare 3443 A curious oriental ramified Sponge, with three Jfognoma inclofed, and a fingular piped Sponge, both rare 3444 Thirteen curious Petrifadlions, among which are a fpecimen of Chain Coral, a bird’s bone in flate, a Gryphites, two Ammonitie, different, a Pleflronites, &c. U 2 3445 Twenty-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28759254_0169.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
