Wikimedia Commons is a repository of images under free licenses to be used under two conditions : Attribution (give credit to author/photographer/creator), Share-alike (Works using these images must allow the same freedoms given to you i.e. commercial use permitted, distribution permitted, derivatives permitted).
*Frederic Moore* FZShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological_Society_of_London(May 13, 1830–May 10, 1907) was a British http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom entomologisthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomologistand assistant curator in the East India Companyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_CompanyMuseum, London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London. He continued until the museum was disbanded in 1879. He began compiling *Lepidoptera indica* (1890–1913), a major work on the butterflies of the South Asiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asiain 12 volumes, which was completed after his death by Charles Swinhoe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Swinhoe. The plates were produced by his son, while some others were produced by John Nugent Fitchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nugent_Fitch . The links for scanned volumes for Lepidoptera Indica can be found on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Moore
Shyamal has completed the image harvestinghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lepidoptera_Indicaof Lepidoptera Indicahttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lepidoptera_Indica&action=edit&redlink=1volumes 1 to 10 for Wikimedia Commons (over 2000 images). Find the images here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lepidoptera_Indica
A truly humungous task which has great relevance to Indian butterfly articles.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Templeton_watercolour_ulster.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Templeton_watercolour_ulster.jpg A watercolour plate by Robert Templetonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Templetonwith notes by Frederic Moore on the left margin
Papilio mayo