Aspidiotus ostreaeformis [European fruit scale] mb-code NTS_BROE_73_86 spectacles and livery gown sitting

spectacles and livery gown sitting at the head of a dinner table under a canopy

Peter Collins in a Ferrari Dino

They were partners in a woodworking machinery business and were commissioned to build Daimler engines by a solicitor named Edouard Sarazin

View of the cloisters of the Merchant Taylors' School

c1866-1899

Aspidiotus ostreaeformis [European fruit scale] mb-code NTS_BROE_73_86 spectacles and livery gown sittingPlate 5, 'Monograph of the Coccidae of the British Isles', by Robert Newstead (Ray Society, 1900 1902). Figures 1 14 Aspidiotus ostraeformis, views insects on peach, currant, plum and heather at various stages of development. One figure circled with the note 'Omit'. Magnified to x25, x50 and x600. Signed 'R. Newstead [del struck through] ad nat. del.', date cropped by probably '1902'. Annotated verso with a manuscript version of the plate description.