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was upholding the high position which Holland had already won. 

 His Nedcrkmdsche Insecten, series ii (1860-77), a continuation of Sepp's 

 work, contains some very beautiful figures, though more in the style 

 of Milliere than that of Sepp. During this period Hewitson was 

 publishing figures in this country, but it cannot be said that he added 

 any treasures to English art. 



Among the host of excellent plates issued of late years perhaps 

 those drawn by Mary Peart and published in W. H. Edward's noble 

 work, T/tc Biittci-jlu'^ of Xorth America (Philadelphia, 1868-97), are the 

 very best of their kind. The figures are crisp and yet soft, and there 

 is, in the best plates, in both imagines and larvfe, an air of life. A 

 truly exquisite plate is that representing Apatara clyton vars. oceUata 

 and prospt'vjnna, and it shows what may be achieved by means of 

 lithography and also the advance that has been made in that art since 

 the days of Sneefelder. Dr. A. G. Butler's Cataloi/rte of Diurnal 

 Lepidoptcra of the Famibj Satyridae (London 1868), contains some 

 very careful drawings of insects of that family. 



As an instance of the best class of wood engraving, the earlier 

 impressions of Edward Newman's Natural History of the British Moths 

 (London, 1869), may be cited ; though uncoloured they are among the 

 best figures we have of the larger British Heterocera. Many 

 of the figures of imagines to be found in C. Oberthiir's Etiide/t 

 d' Entoiiwlof/ie (Renues, 1876-99), are very charming, and especially 

 interesting to those studying the lepidoptera of the Palasarctic region. 

 Special attention may be drawn to the Atlas de la Description Physique 

 de la Repuhlique Aryentine (Buenos Aires, 1879), by H. C. C. Burmeister. 

 The feature of this book consists in a number of most beautifully 

 drawn and coloured figures of most extraordinary larvfe belonging to 

 the SpJtinyidae and Saturniidae, &c. Marshall and de Niceville 

 published their liutterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon, at Calcutta, 

 in 1882. The work is interesting as the plates are drawn by clever 

 Indian artists. As a good example of fine Russian illustration the 

 later volumes of N. M. Romanoff's Memoires sur les Lepidopteres (St. 

 Petersburg, 1884-97), may be consulted. The text is in French as 

 well as Russian. 



The most useful book of illustrations of British larvse is undoubtedly 

 Buckler's Larvae cf the British Butterfiies and Moths (Ray Society, 

 London, 1886-99). The figures, as works of art, are not altogether 

 pleasing, though Buckler's original drawings are very truthful. In 

 the first volumes of the Ilhopalocera Edvtica, by Grose- Smith and W. 

 F. Kirby (1887 et seq.) there are some beautiful hand-coloured plates 

 of imagines. The Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea (London, 

 1892-4), by J. H. Leech, is a most valuable work, and the set of 

 plates, bound separately, surpasses any other of its kind. These 

 plates display figures of cabinet specimens, both sides of the wings 

 being shown, one pair being detached from the body and reversed in 

 the now so prevalent manner. The drawing of these figures is 

 excellent and the colouring particularly rich and soft. It is a true 

 delight to examine these beautiful lithographs. 



Very instructive is Packard's Monoyraph of the Bombycine Moths of 

 America, north of Mexico, part i., Notodontidae (Washington, 1895). 

 The heliotypes of cabinet specimens are too realistic to be pleasant 

 though eminently useful to the entomologist, while the figures of 



