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pictured Monday 3rd February 1964

'Yellow-legged ascalaphus' [Yellow owl-fly] Size:M: 75 x 60cm 'Pump CourtEntomological study of the Yellow owl fly Suhpalacsa flavipes an insect native to Australia. Plate 20 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by R. P. Nodder. 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. Original: copperplate engraving. 1814

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