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An exposition of English insects : including the several classes of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, & Diptera, or bees, flies, & Libellulae : exhibiting on 51 copper plates near 500 figures, accurately drawn & highly finished in colours, from nature : the whole minutely described, arranged & named, according to the Linnean system, with remarks : the figures of a great number of moths not in the Aurelian collection : formerly published by the same author and a plate with an explanation of colours, are likewise given in the work (1782)

Harris, Moses, 1730-approximately 1788, author, illustrator · London : Sold by Mr. White, bookseller, in Fleet Street, & Mr. Robson, in New Bond Street · leaf 157

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( 93 ) … TAB. XXVIII. s V ■ « LEPIDQPTERA» PHALÆNA, Inquilinus. Fig. i. Expands near three Inquilinus. Fig. i. Déploie J es ailes près inches . de trois pouces. T ES yeux font d’olive brun foncé, au-defïus THE eyes are of a dark olive brown, over JL-*' defquels il y a une ligne couleur de brun each of which…

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