Melampyrum Collection

Curtis British Entomology Plate 262
Coleoptera: Aphanisticus pusillus (Smallest Buprestid) [Plant: Melampyrum cristatum (Crested Cow-wheat)] Date: 1824-39

Purple or field cow-wheat, Melampyrum arvense. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1792

Crested cow-wheat, Melampyrum cristatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1791

Common cow-wheat, Melampyrum pratense. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1793

Curtis British Entomology Plate 273
Hymenoptera: Philanthus androgynus = Philanthus triangulum [Plant: Melampyrum arvense (Purple Cow-wheat)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 225
Lepidoptera: Speranza sylvaria = Itame (or Macaria) brunneata (Rannoch Looper) [Plant: Melampyrum pratense (Meadow Cow-wheat)] Date: 1824-39

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