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This Day, Price Threepence, No. VITI. of 



A MANUAL OF 

 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 



BY H. T. STAINTON, 



Author of "June; a Book for the Country in Summer Time." 



This Work will contain descriptions of all the British species, with popular 

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