Lime hawkmoth, Mimas tiliae, eyed hawkmoth, Smerinthus ocellatus, and poplar hawkmoth, Laothoe populi. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864.

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