Science Art: Plate LXXXI from A natural history of British moths, 1872.

Scientific illustration of moths, orange and brown and green and black, pictured as if flying in tight formation.
Scientific illustration of moths, orange and brown and green and black, pictured as if flying in tight formation.

These are English moths, of the geni Rhodophaea, Oncocera, Aphomia, Galleria, Melliphora, Halias and Sarrothripa. Each species in this book has a description like:

The situations where it is found are woods.

The perfect insect appears in July, August, September, and October.

The caterpillar is green with a darker line along the bank ; the head reddish.

It feeds on the sallow.

I found the book on archive.org while searching for Erxleben illustrations. I’m not sure who the illustrator is here, but the author was Rev. F.O. Morris. Together, the four volumes of this work illustrate and describe all of the nearly 2,000 species of moths in Britain. (Or at least that’s all they knew of at the time.)