Butterflies of North and South America mb-width 3290 'A Midnight Modern Conversation'

'A Midnight Modern Conversation'

View of Hyde Park Corner Turnpike

View of Islington Green

Inscribed: 'Sr C Blagden'

Butterflies of North and South America mb-width 3290 'A Midnight Modern Conversation'Two varieties of butterfly, numbered 4 5. Figure 4 lower surface of Papilio amulius [the Belus swallowtail, Battus belus, a native of South America]. Figures 5 6 upper and lower surfaces of Papilio sesonia [the Southern dogface, Zerene cesonia, a native of North and South America and the Caribbean]. The insects shown were part of the collection of Johann Christian Gerning (1745 1802). The accompanying text states that 'under the immediate care and