Kentish glory

noun

1. a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings

Example Sentences

In the UK, the Kentish glory is only found in north east Scotland.

From BBC

The Kentish glory is one of six of Scotland's rarest insects to be targeted in a new conservation project.

From BBC

The beautiful Kentish Glory is the only British representative of its family.

From Project Gutenberg

For example; if you breed from the chrysalis a female Kentish Glory Moth, and then immediately take her—in a closed box, mind—out into her native woods, within a short space of time an actual crowd of male "Glories" come and fasten upon, or hover over, the prison-house of the coveted maiden.

From Project Gutenberg

May not, then, this undiscovered sense, whatever may be its nature, reside in the antenn�? for it is a remarkable fact, that the very moths, such as the Eggers, the Emperor, the Kentish Glory, &c., which display the above-mentioned phenomenon most signally, have the antenn� in the males amplified with numerous spreading branches, so as to present an unusually large sensitive surface.

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