1882 Hand-Colored Lithograph WF Kirby Art Tawny Shears Moth Insect Bugs EBM1 CA1 Davis & Company in Detroit

Davis & Company in Detroit

Director of Photography: Harry Fischbeck

Keywords specific to this image: Water Ripple

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1882 Hand-Colored Lithograph WF Kirby Art Tawny Shears Moth Insect Bugs EBM1 CA1 Davis & Company in Detroit"Noctuae" This is an original 1882 hand colored lithograph by English entomologist William Forsell Kirby (1844 1912), of several species of moths from the genus Noctua, including; the Tawny Shears or Pod Lover, Hadena perplexa (Fig. 1), the Guernsey Underwing, Polyphaenis sericata, (Fig. 2), the Cleophana anarrhini, (Fig. 3), the Double spot Brocade, Meganephria bimaculosa, (Fig. 4), the Jaspidea celsia, (Fig. 5), the Grey, Hadena caesia, (Fig. 6),