Silk moth, Bombyx mori, and large or garden tiger moth, Arctia caja, on mulberry leaves, Morus alba. 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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