Moth Collection (page 11)

Heath Butterfly 1860
The HEATH and other English butterflies and moths

Moth on a handmade Christmas card, with a handwritten label and a little pink bag, perhaps containing pot pourri. Date: circa 1890s

Papillons - butterflies
Variety of butterflies and moths. Date: 1930

Engraved Jacobite airtwist drinking glass, 1760 (c). The bell bowl is engraved with an open thistle and two buds and a single moth, on a double-knopped mufti-spiral airtwist stem and conical foot

Marshalls Petal Dust Moth Preventer -- keep your furs and clothes free from ravage. circa 1910s

The Golden Moth by Fred Thomson & P G Wodehouse
Promotional postcard for The Golden Moth by Fred Thomson and P. G.Wodehouse; music Ivor Novello. First produced Adelphi, Theatre, 5th October 1921.The title refers to a crooks rendezvous in Paris

Cerura vinula, puss moth
Watercolour on paper, c.1831 by Elizabeth Davy (d.1836). From the Elizabeth Davy collection of Butterflies & moths. Held in the Library and Archives Date: circa 1831

Illustration, Cymatophoridae -- Acronyctidae -- Thyatira Batis, Cymatophora Or, Asphalia Flavicornis, Asphalia Ridens, Acronycta Leporina, Acronycta Alni, Acronycta Psi, Acronycta Aceris

Convolvulus hawk-moth, Agrius convolvuli.. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw

Lappet Moth - on tree-bark - has its wings and antennae in folded position that makes it looks like a small twig. Bohol, Philippines. February. Gastropacha sp. probably pardale

MOLLISONs PUSS MOTH
James Allan Mollisons (husband of Amy Johnson) de Havilland Puss Moth aeroplane, being overhauland at Hendon, England. Date: February 1933

British Moths and Caterpillars - Various
British Moths - Various, including: Kentish Glory Moth, Wood Tiger Moth, Spurge Hawk Moth, Magpie Moth, Puss Moth and caterpillar and Grey Dagger Moth and caterpillar. Date: circa 1910s

de Havilland DH83 Fox Moth, G-ABUT, the winner of the 1932 Kings Cup race

Pauline Gower (1910-1947) (left) and Dorothy Spicer alongside a de Havilland DH60G Gipsy Moth, G-aEX. They were the first to run an all-female joy-riding business, Air Tours Ltd, founded in 1931

Asilidae, robber flies

Coscinocera hercules, Austrlian hercules moth
A pinned specimen of the Australian hercules moth (Coscinocera hercules) (Miskin, 1876). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Biston betularia, peppered moth
Two specimens of the same species of moth illustrating industrial melanism, which is abnormal deposits of melanin (especially in the skin)

Acronicta psi, grey dagger moth caterpillar
Grey dagger moth caterpillars feed on many types of tree and shrub including; birch, lime and hawthorn. The adult moths display black dagger-like markings on their wings

Garden Carpet Moth
An adult Garden Carpet Moth at rest. Date: 1960s

Apres la Guerre no. 5 - postcard drawn by George Ranstead
Humorous drawing on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur soldier artist of the Great War. This image, one of a series suggesting what life might be like at the end of the war

The dancers June Jourdon and Derrick Waterlow, London, 1923. Jourdon appeared in The Golden Moth at the Adelphi Theatre and Waterlow will appear in a West End production Date: 1923

British Moths - Forester, Red Underwing, Scarce Green
A variety of British Moths - Forester, Red Underwing, Scarce Green Silver Lines, Small Yellow Wave and Emperor. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 - With the W. A. A. F. - Tiger Moth Construction explained
WW2 - With the W.A.A.F. - The construction of a Tiger Moth Aircraft being explained. Date: circa 1942

Caricature of Henry Hamilton, English playwright and actor
Caricature of Henry Hamilton (c1853-1918), English playwright and actor, whose adaptation of Ouidas novel, Moths (published 1880), was in production at the Olympic Theatre, London

Grasshopper riding a moth on a Christmas card
Grasshopper riding on the back of a moth on a Christmas card -- Fairy Queens messenger. Date: circa 1890s

Three moths on a Christmas card, with verse and stars. Date: circa 1890s

Three moths on a New Year card, with verse. Date: circa 1890s

Hemithea squalidaria
Illustration from Fauna del regno di Napoli by Gabriele Costa Oronzio, 1848. Date: 1848

Front cover of Eve Magazine 22 March 1922 featuring Nancie Lovet, the heroine of The Golden Moth at the Adelphi Theatre, London Date: 1922

Illustration, Tortrices -- Tineae -- Pterophori -- Penthina Salicella, Retinia Resinella, Antithesia Pruniana, Grapholitha Citrana, Carpocapsa Pomonella, Tinea Tapetzella, Euplocamus Anthracinalis

Illustration, Pyrales -- Tortrices -- Hydrocampa Nymphaeata, Odontia Dentalis, Ennychia Nigrata, Threnodes Pollinalis, Pyrausta Purpuralis, Botys Urticata, Botys Flavalis, Botys Hyalinalis

Illustration, Phytometridae -- Ortholitha Palumbaria, Ortholitha Bipunctaria, Scotosia Certata, Scotosia Undulata, Larentia Fluctuata, Larentia Bilineata, Larentia Tristata, Larentia Hastata

Illustration, Dendrometridae -- Phytometridae -- Odontopera Bidentata, Hypoplectis Adspersaria, Aspilates Gilvaria, Numeria Pulveraria, Gnophos Dilucidaria, Tephronia Sepiaria

Illustration, Dendrometridae -- Therapis Evonymaria, Pericallia Syringaria, Crocallis Elinguaria, Eurymene Dolabraria, Epione Advenaria, Epione Apiciaria, Diastictis Artesiaria, Ploseria Diversata

Illustration, Geometrae -- Cleogene Peletieraria, Gnophos Obfuscata, Scodiona Belgiaria, Cimelia Margarita, Pygmaena Fusca, Eusarca Badiaria, Nychiodes Lividaria, Hemerophila Abruptaria

Illustration, Noctuophalaenidae -- Deltoididae etc
Illustration, Noctuophalaenidae -- Deltoididae -- Chloephoridae -- Erastria Deceptoria, Erastria Fasciana, Emmelia Trabealis, Trothisa Respersa, Trothisa Rosea, Trothisa Purpurina

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