CONTENTS 



PART I 



STBUCTUBE AND LIFE HIS TOBY OF THE 

 LEPIDOPTEBA 



CHAV. PAGE 



I. GENIiKAL CHARACTERS 1 



II. THE EGG ........... 16 



III. THE LAKVA 22 



IV. THE rUI'A OK CHRYSALIS ........ 40 



V. CL.1SSIFICATI0X 01' THE LEPIDOl'TEKA 55 



PART II 



WOBK AT HOME AND IN THE FIELD 



VI. CATCHING BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS . . . . . . 6.3 



VII COLLECTING OVA, LARV^, AND PUP.E 08 



VIII. REARING LEPIDOPTERA 112 



IX. SETTING AND PRESERVING 122 



X. PRESERVING OVA, LARVAE AND PVPM 130 



XI. THE CABINET - ARRANGEMENT OF SPECIMENS .... 134 



PART III 



BBITISH BUTTEBFLIES 



XII. THE SWALLOW-TAIL AND THE ' WHITES ' . . . 



XIII. THE FRITILL.ARIES, VANESSAS, AND THE PURPLE EMPEROR 



XIV. THE SROWNS AND HEATHS 



XV. THE HAIRSTREAKS, COPPERS AND BLUES 



SVI. THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY AND THE SKIPPERS . 



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