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Edward Donovan (1768–1837):
An Epitome of the Natural History of the insects of India and the islands in the Indian Seas: Comprising upwards to two hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of the most singular and beautiful species, selected chiefly from those recently discovered, and which have not appeared in the works of any preceding author. The figures are accurately drawn, engraved, and coloured, from specimens of the insects; the descriptions are arranged according to the system of Linnaeus; with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors. .


London,Printed for the author by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Messrs, Rivingtons, St. Paul's Church Yard; White, Fleet Street, Faulder, Bond Street; and H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, 1800- The exact publication date, stated on the title page as being 1800, is unclear as most plates are later; for example, the plate for Cicada indica is dated Feb 1, 1804.

Pagination: [70] p., [55] leaves of plates. Hand-colored copper-engraved plates, approximately 9 inches by 11 3/4 inches.

Text "An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India", London, 1798, see University of Oxford Text Archive and Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Names Animalbase some unallocated.

Copies:Some illustrations may be copied from Jones’ Icones

Localities:The type localities given in Fabricius are uncertain "in Indiis" refers to the Caribbean Islands but sometimes this means "Caribbean, India or SE Asia"."Indiis Occidentalibus" (shortened "Indiis") means the Americas.Type locality: "Indiis" is sometimes used (in error) for Africa.Insects illustrated by Donovan as "in Indiis" may also have been wrongly provenanced in the source collections he used (ie. from the Americas or Africa) For instance Papilio hippona (now Consul fabius Cramer, 1779) attributed to Fabricius "Fab. Ent. Syst. T. 3. p. 1. p. 180. Sp. 559" was in that work described from a specimen in the Joseph Banks collection "Habitat in India, Dr Schultze". It is a South American species.

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