Cream spotted tiger 1,6, speckled yellow 2, red underwing 3, scarlet tiger 4, large yellow underwing 5, mother shipton 7, triangle 8, spotted elephant 9, thorn moth 10, African black-veined 11. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Moses Harris from William Frederic Martyn’s A New Dictionary of Natural History, Harrison, London, 1785. Pseudonym of William Fordyce Mavor, Scottish priest, teacher and writer, 1758-1837.

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