† privet-flyn.Obsoleterare a kind of plume moth (not identified).
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plume moth1742
privet-fly1753
plume1819
chalk pit1832
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl.Privet-fly, in natural history, the name of a species of fly very common on the shrub from whence it has its name. It is called the erinopterus.