Mytilaspis pomorum [Mussel scale] mb-copyright Alvaro Tapia Throwing hot pennies to children

Throwing hot pennies to children at Honiton Fair

by the Conservatives of Buckinghamshire

Children play on the river bank and Battersea Mill can be seen in the background

View of the Sessions House

Mytilaspis pomorum [Mussel scale] mb-copyright Alvaro Tapia Throwing hot pennies to childrenPlate 24, 'Monograph of the Coccidae of the British Isles', by Robert Newstead (Ray Society, 1900 1902). Figures 1 2 Mytilaspis pomorum, views of the insect on the branch of an apple tree, natural size. Signed below 'R. Newstead ad nat del.', cropped and initialled 'R. N.' A replacement illustration for the figures on the subsequent whole plate. An attached sheet is inscribed in pencil 'Mytilaspis pomorum Bouche, Retd. 15 May 1900'. Original: pencil