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].
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- 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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![( ) •870 A very fine fpecimen of Mya ponderofa, S. a very rare frefh-water Bivalves, with a pearly infide, from China 3871 A remarkable fine and large fpecimen of Mlllepora Alcicornis, L. With two fine drama gryphoides, a peften fagrinata, -S'. Corallina opuntia, L. and other curious adhefions, from Atttigua 3S72 A pair of extremely fine fpecimens of a fcarce variety of Bulla achatina, 1., or narrow-firiped Zebra Land Snail, from the Cape of Good Hope 3773 Avery large and fine fpecimen of Mytilus plicatus, S. an extremely fcarce frefli-w'ater Shell, from China 3874 A large and beautiful fpecimen of Voluta Amphora, ‘S. or clouded ^Ethiopian Crown. Martyn^ Vol, III. fig. 780 387^ A very large foffil Grinder-Tooth of fome unknown quadruped, extremely fcarce ^876 A fine fpecimen of Madrepera muricata, and another of Millepora alcicornis, L, joined together, very curious, from -Martinique CURIOUS EXOTIC INSECTS. 3877 A fine pair of Cerambyx Longimanus, L. from Surinam,-—”jery rare 3878 A pair of very fine fpecimensof Papilio Menelaus, L. from Surinam-—fcarce 3879 A very large and-fine fpecimen of the great leaf Loculi, an undeferibeJ fpecies of Gryllus, from Africa 3800 A pair of that molt beautiful Infed the Pha'laena Impcfialis, oi Drurp’y Hal, I. p], g. fg. r. 2. from ’New Tork-—extremely fcarce 38S1 A very large and fine Cerambyx Cervi-cornia, I., from S. America-^very rare 3S8Z Ten curious and rare infeds, viz. a pair of Termes fatale, that defruSli'Ve inf Si the plague »f both the India ; two of Caflida petiveriana, L. two cuiious larvae of a fingular fpecies of Chermes, three Nepne, one bearing its eggs on its back, and a Cimex 3883 A very fine Scarabseus Atlas, Z. extremely rare 3884 Tw'o curious fpecies of Caflida, with green Elytra, one with two yellow, the other with fix red fpots in them, both from the Brazils; and a beautiful fpecies of Tenebrio, of the colour of burnilbed copper-, from the E, Indiciy ■all undeferihedy and extremely rare The Tenebrio Femoratus of Druryy •vol. II. pi. ^^.fig. 5. is like the laft-mentioned, but differs in fize and colour 5S85 A curious Phalacna, from the E, /W/rr—“(Papilio Patroclus, L.) and a very beau- tiful 3ellow and black undeferibed Papilio, from Africa-—extremely fcarce 3S86 An exceeding fine pair of Phalsna Nobilis, a new and undeferibed fpecies, very large, of a brown colour, veined with orange, ftriped and fpotted with yellow, extremely rarey from Ne^v York 3887 Two fine fpecimens of an undeferibed fpecies of Cicada, from Africa—extremely fcarce 3888 A beautiful green Bupreftis, with four copper*coloured and two large yellow fpots in the Elytra, deferibed by FabriciuSy from China-—very rare 3889 Avery fine fpecimen of Mantis Goftgjdoides, L. extremely fcarce 3^90 An uncommon fpecies of Libellula, with a very long abdomen, allied to that figured by Druryy vol. II. pi. 48. fig. and is perhaps the variety mentuto^d by him, Sehd% Muf, tab, 68, from Surinam Z 2 3891 A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28759254_0193.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
