Scarlet tiger moth, purple tiger, buff-tip moth and canary shouldered thorn.
Scarlet tiger moth, Callimorpha dominula 1, purple tiger, Rhyparia purpurata 2, buff-tip moth, Phalera bucephala 3, and canary shouldered thorn, Ennomos alniaria, with caterpillar and pupa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.
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