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  • Butterfly wing scales
  • Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio)
  • Scales from butterfly wing
  • A butterfly. Coloured lithograph.
  • Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM
  • Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM
  • Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM.
  • Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM.
  • Cabbage white butterfly egg, close-up, SEM.
  • Cabbage white butterfly egg, very close-up
  • A large butterfly. Stipple engraving with etching.
  • Butterfly tree or camel's foot (Bauhinia diphylla): flowering stem with floral segments. Line engraving by Mackenzie, c.1795.
  • Cabbage white butterfly egg,v.close-up, SEM.
  • Plate 25, Illus. of cycle from catepillar to butterfly
  • Butterfly iris (Moraea sp.): entire flowering plant with separate fruiting stem and sections of leaf and bulb. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Poor man's orchid or butterfly flower (Schizanthus pinnatus): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, 1833.
  • A white admiral (?) butterfly. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A young female role actor performing a butterfly dance. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1860.
  • A yellow, black and red butterfly. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A yellow butterfly with two 'eyes'. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A green and orange spotted butterfly. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A red, blue and black butterfly. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Five different types of butterfly flower (Schizanthus species): flowering stems and leaves. Coloured lithograph.
  • A purple, yellow, red and green butterfly. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A pink, brown and green spotted butterfly. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Calamint plant (Calamintha species) with an associated butterfly and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • A butterfly, a moth and a caterpillar in a meadow. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • Sir Joseph Banks chasing the butterfly called the Emperor of Morocco. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, 1788.
  • A lily (Lilium album): flowering stem with a butterfly. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis): flowering plant with butterfly and beetle. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.