Lists of insects and birds collected from Tenerife, Cabo Verde and Rio de Janeiro by John Forbes, headed 'Insects'

Title

Lists of insects and birds collected from Tenerife, Cabo Verde and Rio de Janeiro by John Forbes, headed 'Insects'

Record type

Archive

Original Reference

RHS/Col/3/4/10

Date

Mar-Jun 1822

Scope & content

List of insects, numbered, from Teneriffe [Tenerife, Spain] (specimens 1-11), Isle of Sal [Cabo Verde] (specimens 1-3), Island of St Antonia [Santo Antao, Cabo Verde] (specimens 1-8), Island of St Jago [Santiago, Cabo Verde] (specimens 1-5). Includes species of Lepidoptera, species of Hemiptera, a species of Diptera, Mantis and a species of Hymenoptera [here the list includes 22 more insects]

List of birds from Tenerife, St Vincent [Cabo Verde], Isle of Sal and St Jago [Santiago, Cabo Verde]. Includes wagtail ('eyes olive'), quail, [an unnamed bird] ('flies in flocks, eyes olive'), a species of Falco ('iris pale yellow') and kingfisher ('eyes light blue')

List of insects from Rio de Janeiro, numbered (specimens 1-86). Includes species of Coleoptera ('bores holes in the trunks of Anacardium occidentale', 'acacia bushes'), Curculio imperialis [Entimus imperialis] ('trees of Bombax heptaphyllum [?Pseudobombax septenatum] on which they feed'), species of Hemiptera ('green', 'thickest part of the woods, Mandioca [Grigori Langsdorff's farm in Brazil]') [here the list includes 81 more insects]

Undated [May-Jun 1822; Forbes visited Tenerife, Cabo Verde and Brazil between March and June 1822]

For another copy of the list of insects from Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], finishing at No 71 (specimens 1-71), see RHS/Col/3/4/9

Extent

4 pages (1 sheet)

Is part of

RHS archive: plant collector papers

Repository

Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library

Copyright

Royal Horticultural Society

Credit Line

RHS Lindley Collections

Usage terms

Non-commercial use with attribution permitted (CC BY-NC 4.0)