IMPORTANT OFFER. 



A Natural History of the 

 British Lepidoptera, 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S., 



Demy 8vo. Strongly bound in cloth. 



Volume I contains 560 + vi pp. ; Vol. II, 584 + viii pp. ; Vol. Ill, 558 + xi pp. ; 

 Vol. IV, 535 + xvii pp. 



Volume Y of this important work is now nearing completion, and we hope to 

 have it issued shortly to subscribers. To subscribers in advance to Mr. J. Herbert 

 Tutt, 119, Westcombe Hill, Blackheath, S.E., the price of the book will be 15s. 

 Otherwise the volume will be published at £1 absolutely net. 



To new subscribers who wish to take in the whole work; Vols. I to IV to be delivered 

 now, and V when published, the five volumes will be sent for £4 net. This offer will only 

 last until the publication of Volume V, when it will be withdrawn, and absolutely net 

 prices for the series will be charged. 



This work contains a series of advanced and detailed chapters on the general subject 

 — "Origin of Lepidoptera," "The Ovum," " Embryology of a Lepidopterous Insect," 

 " Parthenogenesis or Agamogenesis in Lepidoptera," " The External Structure of the 

 Lepidopterous Larva," " The Internal Structure of the Lepidopterous Larva," " The 

 Variation in the Imagines of Lepidoptera," " The Protective Coloration and Defensive 

 Structures of Larvse," "Classification of Lepidoptera," "Metamorphosis in Lepidoptera," 

 " Incidental Phenomena relating to Metamorphosis in Lepidoptera," " The External 

 Morphology of the Lepidopterous Pupa," "The Internal Structure of the Lepidopterous 

 Pupa," "The Phylogeny of the Lepidopterous Pupa," etc. Volume V contains two new 

 important detailed chapters (1) " Hybridity in Lepidoptera," (2) " Mongrelisation in 

 Lepidoptera." 



Also full and detailed monographs of the British "Micropterygides," "Nepticulides," 

 "Psychides," "Lachneides," "Attacides," "Dimorphides," "Sphingides," " Alucitides," 

 etc. Each volume contains a " Special Index " giving all references to every species 

 mentioned in the volume, whilst Vol. IV contains, in addition, a " General Index to Vols. 

 I to IV," and " A Synopsis of Contents of Vols. I to IV," by George Wheeler, M.A. 



The work is encyclopaedic in its character, with general details of each superfamily, 

 subdivision, and species, dealing with their affinities, classification, habits, early stages, 

 distribution, hybridisation, gynandromorphism, variation, local races, etc. Every lepi- 

 dopterist ought to make it his business to see the work, if he sees it he will buy it, even if 

 he makes no other investment in entomological books. Over a thousand entomologists 

 have been drawn on for material in connection with the work. 



The Hon. W. Rothschild and Dr. Jordan, in their standard Revision of the 

 Sphingidae, writes: " Tutt's work is the most intrinsic ever written on the Palasarctic 

 Lepidoptera. There is nothing written anywhere on European Lepidoptera coming up to 

 it in thoroughness." Mr. W. Bateson, F.B.S., writes : " The new British Lepidoptera is 

 a fine scholarly piece of work, for which not only the entomological specialist, but 

 naturalists of all orders, will be thankful to Mr. Tutt for many a year," etc. " The most 

 important work ever offered to lepidopterists. The British fauna is merely taken as the 

 groundwork for the thorough revision of each superfamily treated, and the work thus 

 becomes of first importance to all lepidopterists in the world — systematists, biologists, 

 synonymists, phenologists, etc. This important work puts all others of the kind into the 

 shade. It deserves our full attention and recognition, and the opportunity for its study is 

 not to be missed by any students of European Lepidoptera to whom it is no less valuable 

 than the Briton" (Deri. Ent. Zeits., December, 1902). 



Please forward me Vols. I-V of A Natural History of British Lepidoptera, Vols. I-IV 

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