Little metalmark, Calephelis virginiensis 1, Rothschildia erycina larva 2, common imperial, Cheritra freja 3, bronze copper, Lycaena hyllus 4, Thecla species 6, etc. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Édouard Traviès from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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