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Drawings, egg tubes of various insects by [John Lubbock]

Reference number: PT/75/8/13

Date: 1858

Description

Plate 17, figures 1-8 showing the egg tubes of the Carabus violaceus [violet ground beetle], the Cynips lignicola [gall wasp?], the Odynerus [potter wasp], the Ophion luteum [Ophion luteus], the Nepa cineria [water scorpion], and the Eristalis tenax [common drone fly]. Inscribed with publication and plate details. An ink inscription verso reads 'Leave out the lower part of the Carabus figure'. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Entomology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the ova and pseudova of insects' by John Lubbock.

Received by the Royal Society on 1 November 1858. Read 9 December 1858.

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PT/75/8/13
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1858
Physical description
Ink and ink wash on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Drawing

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John William Lubbock

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John William Lubbock, Drawings, egg tubes of various insects by [John Lubbock], 1858, PT/75/8/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_8_13/drawings-egg-tubes-of-various-insects-by-john-lubbock, accessed on 16 August 2026

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