Double dart or soothsayer, Graphiphora augur 1, pale shoulder, Acontia lucida 2,3, four-spotted moth, Tyta luctuosa 4,5, and druid moth, Aedia funesta 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper’s Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.

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