Vapourer 1, carpet 2, buff-tipped 3, freckled 4, dagger likeness 5, stranger 6, snouted umber 7, Hebrew character 8, large egger 9, dagger 10, housewife 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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