Lexicographical Neighbors of Noctuas
Literary usage of Noctuas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman (1890)
"With the dusk appear the Geometers ; these are afterwards followed by the noctuas ;
and this flight goes on till eight o'clock. After an apparent rest of a ..."
2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1883)
"The first division of the noctuas is styled the ... psi, tridens, strigosa.
etc., to the Notodontidae, leaving only alni and ligustri among the noctuas. ..."
3. Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society by Rugby School Natural History Society (1874)
"The early spring noctuas will naturally be good specimens, ... These are the
commonest of spring noctuas: while for the hibernated autumn moths, ..."
4. A Treatise on some of the insects injurious to vegetation by Thaddeus William Harris (1880)
"Many of the noctuas vary more or less from the characters above given, and the tribe
... The injury done to vegetation by the caterpillars of the noctuas, ..."
5. A Report on the Insects of Massachusetts, Injurious to Vegetation by Thaddeus William Harris (1841)
"Many of the noctuas vary more or less from the characters above given, and the tribe
... The injury done to vegetation by the caterpillars of the noctuas, ..."
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