Clouded carpet or phoenix, Eulithis prunata 1, brown China-mark, Elophila nymphaeata 2, grey waved 3, short-cloak carpet, Euphyia biangulata 4, chocolate bar 5, unnamed 6,7, and small emerald, Hemistola chrysoprasaria 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Moses Harris from his own Exposition of English Insects, Including the several Classes of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, or Bees, Flies and Libellulae, White and Robson, London, 1782.

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