Lime-speck pug, Eupithecia centaureata, on a French marigold, Tagetes patula, and light crimson underwing, Catocala promissa, on an oak branch, Quercus robur. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from "The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies," new edition edited by J. O. Westwood, published by Henry Bohn, London, 1840.

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