Mytilaspis pomorum [Mussel scale] Size:S: 45 x 30cm A figure stands at table

A figure stands at table and writes on a piece of parchment with a brush

with a small round table to the right as viewed

'Europe in masquerade

'The City cuckolds & Court horned beasts comparing each other's beauty'

in Huddersfield

Mytilaspis pomorum [Mussel scale] Size:S: 45 x 30cm A figure stands at tablePlate 24, 'Monograph of the Coccidae of the British Isles', by Robert Newstead (Ray Society, 1900 1902). Figures 1 11 Mytilaspis pomorum including views of the insect on the branch of an apple tree [subsequently replaced, these versions are annotated 'omit'], studies of male and female insects and puparium. Natural size and at x15, x20, x35 and x50 magnifications. Signed below 'R. Newstead ad nat del.', heavily cropped. The facing page is a corrected