λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF SOUTH AMERICAN AND AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF SOUTH AMERICAN AND AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

20TH CENTURY

with a glazed door enclosing fifteen glass topped drawers with a variety of specimens including: swallowtails, heliconius, danaus, clear-wings, crackers, hawk moths, pierids, Bath White, callicore, dynamine, delias, mapwings, graphium and others, some drawers with collecting data

102cm high, 56cm wide, 43cm deep

Provenance

Collected by Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) in the first half of the 20^th century and displayed at Exbury House, Hampshire.

The Trustees of Exbury House.

We are grateful to Simon Moore M.I.Sc.T., A.C.R. from Natural History Conservation for his assistance cataloguing the present work.