THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



BY W. G. WRIGHT, OF CALIFORNIA. 



Who for twenty years has been gathering material for this -work. The book is S x 10 

 inches in size of page, contains 260 pages of text, and 32 plates in the best of color- 

 J photography, containing nearly a thousand figures, photographed directly from the 

 insects themselves and reproduced in all their natural colors, and includes either in 

 the description or plates, or both, every species known on the West Coast. 



A HANDBOOK FOR STUDENTS AND A 

 REFERENCE BOOK FOR LIBRARIES. 



The species, from Parnassius to Megathymus, 483 names, are all figured, numbered, 

 and described consecutively. Usually three figures are given of each species the 

 male, the female and the underside but of some variable or disputed forms additional 

 figures are added, and of common species only one figure is given. Similar forms are 

 placed on the plates as near together as possible to facilitate comparison. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF MANY WEST COAST 

 BUTTERFLIES NEVER BEFORE FIGURED 



Sent by registered post prepaid to any country on receipt of price, 14.35. by 

 the author. The colored plates with all the figures named, but no text, are for 

 sale, singly, or in sets. 



W. 6. WRIGHT, 445 F. ST., SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF 



DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA 



WITH DESCRIPTIONS 

 BY ANDREW GRAY WEtKS, JR., 190$ 



117 pages and 45 colored plates, by J. Henry Blake, ad. nat., 

 and P>. Meisel, lithographer, descriptive of 81 species hitherto 

 undescribed or figured, mostly from Bolivia, with steel plate 

 frontispiece of Samuel Hubbard Scudder. 



The plates cover all species describe^ and represent the limit 

 of perfection in lithographic art, being considered equal to. or 

 superior to, any previous productions. $15.00 postage paid. 



H. PECK, AGENT, 8 CONGRESS STREET, BOSTON, MASS 

 RARE ARIZONA INSECTS FOR SALE 



Orders taken for Amblychila baroni, Plusiotis beyeri, P. lecontei, Oncido, 

 quercus, Byrsopolis lanigera. Neophasia terlooti, and other rare butterflies 

 and moths. Fine fresh specimens of Plusiotis g/oriosa, fr.oo. Pupa? of 

 Crinodes biedermani, $2 50 each. Imagos, after July, $5.00. Apply lo 



C. R. BfEDERMAN, Palmerlee, Cochise County, Arizona. 



WEST INDIAN INSECTS. 



LEPIDOPTERA, COLEOPTERA AND HYMENOPTERA A SPECIALTY 



Mr. C. H. Armstrong, late Curator Natural History Society. Toronto, 

 Canada, is now on a collecting trip in the- \\Vst Imlit -s, <-\|>e< tint; to 

 reside there permanently, solicits loi insects in all order--. Sr:is,m'> 

 catch, or in families, or otherwise. 



Address C. H. Armstrong, Georgetown, Demerara, W. I. 



Wien Writing Please Mention " Kiitomoloijicn I New*." 



