EditorialHummingbird hawk-moth, Macroglossum stellatarum (Hummingbird sphinx moth, Sphinx stellatarum). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Misce...
EditorialAchemon sphinx, Eumorpha achemon 1, Macroglossum passalus 2, Glaucopis? pulchra 3, and Manduca brontes 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.
EditorialHummingbird hawk-moth, Macroglossum stellatarum 1, broad-bordered bee hawk-moth, Hemaris fuciformis 2, and hornet moth or hornet clearwing, Sesia apiformis 3, with pupa and larva. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgar...
EditorialDot moth, Melanchra persicalae, hummingbird hawk-moth, Macroglossum stellatarum, feeding on the greater bindweed, Convolvulus species. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from "The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths ...