'Banksian hipparchia' [Banks's brown butterfly] Finish:Stretched supported on a box

supported on a box

to receive money from people dealing with the tavern

barges and rowing boats on the Thames

4th June 1964

Old Kent Road

'Banksian hipparchia' [Banks's brown butterfly] Finish:Stretched supported on a boxEntomological studies of Banks's brown butterfly, Heteronympha banksii, an insect native to Australia. Views from above and below. Plate 10 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 Rd. P. Nodder Feby 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in